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- From: frank@fnbc.com (Frank Mitchell)
- Subject: Re: Gibson's work--possibly titled AGRIPPA
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.183118.23687@fnbc.com>
- Sender: news@fnbc.com
- Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
- References: <C0qx5B.33H@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:31:18 GMT
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- In article <C0qx5B.33H@unx.sas.com> sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- writes:
- >
- > ...[Re:] 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.
-
- ooooooooooo EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE eeeeeeeeeeee ooooooooooo ...
-
- Except that the author would either have to think out all the possibilities in
- advance and write them in, or have one HELL of an AI program. (Well, not
- exactly HAL, but a pretty sophisticated Natural Language Generator and a model
- of the fictional world for it to work from.)
-
- --
- Frank Mitchell, Business Systems Analyst, First National Bank of Chicago
- email:frank@fnbc.com (NeXTmail)
-
- "'I am that merry wanderer of the night'? I am that giggling, dangerous,
- totally bloody psychotic menace to life and limb, more like it."
- -- Peaseblossom, _Sandman_ #19
-