NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/misc/writing/4085

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From: [e-mail] (Fred Welden)
Subject: Re: Gibson's work--possibly titled AGRIPPA
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Bryan Miller) writes:
|In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
|(Fred Welden) writes:
|
|> [re: Gibson's AGRIPPA]
|>
|> Have any of you seen it?  Heard of it?  Have an opinion?
|>
|
|If you go there now, you should be able to find an unexpired copy
|of the text from that work, as well as the tail of the discussion
|thread.

Thanks. Several people have e-mailed this as well.  Unfortunately,
alt.cyberpunk is not permitted here in Dobonia.  Fortunately, Matt
Maxwell has offered an alternative route.

Besides, my question was mainly directed not at the textual content of
the piece but at the concept of a read-one-time work.  It seems to me
that the same general idea, combined with some of the hypertext tricks
that Tom Maddox described, could produce a work that changed each time
you read it--it could be re-read, but never the same text twice.  Now
THAT, I think, has some interesting possibilities.

For example, if you went back and re-read the same sex scene too often,
the characters could start getting the feeling they were being watched,
and become more inhibited.  Eventually, they might decide just to go out
to dinner instead.


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