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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Subject: Re: Language Lists (was Re: Work in Progress: Proposal
- Originator: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:27:40 GMT
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- In article <ELIZ.92Aug25113813@peduncle.ai.mit.edu>, eliz@ai.mit.edu (Elizabeth Willey) writes:
- |This discussion reminds me of Lin Carter's original fantasy, which was
- |painstakingly built up from the ground, or so he thought, and cannot
- |be read with a straight face now.
- |
- |I don't sweat these questions, myself; I'm more worried about making
- |the characters three-dimensional than whether they have two-, three-,
- |or four-pronged eating utensils. It is too easy to get bogged down in
- |details of clothing and taxonomy and end up writing a dead book. The
- |flow of the human story is the first priority. But different books
- |have different writers and different stresses.
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- Whoa, watch out, this is leading us right back into the old
- Reserach in Fiction thread. I agree with you completely, of
- course, but I fear we are in the minority among posters to this
- group.
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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