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- From: mtan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Maureen Tan)
- Subject: Re: Language Lists (was Re: Work in Progress: Proposal
- References: <14545@mindlink.bc.ca> <71572@apple.Apple.COM> <ELIZ.92Aug25113813@peduncle.ai.mit.edu> <BtJv64.8yy@unx.sas.com>
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- Organization: UIUC
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:29:44 GMT
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- In article <BtJv64.8yy@unx.sas.com>, sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- wrote:
- >
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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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- I don't know if you're in the minority, but your POV gets my vote.
-
- Maureen (a.k.a. Jane)
-