Re: Fine writing in IF


19 Jan 1995 00:39:31 GMT

Andrew Plotkin:
> Clear, terse, crisp, lively prose *is* beautiful.

oh, right. there's that too. but it's hard to pull off.

random thought: what about an adventure game where all the room
descriptions are phrased as rhymed couplets?

there's a novel, _The Golden Gate_, by Vikram Seth, which is written
entirely in strict sonnet form, and it works surprisingly well.

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