Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: "The Light: Shelby's Addendum" AVAILABLE NOW


Mon, 4 Dec 1995 11:10:43 -0500

jholder@nmsu.edu (John Holder) writes:
> Martha Kuehl (mlkuehl@students.wisc.edu) mentioned in rec.arts.int-fiction tha\
> t::
>
> > A strangeness has fallen.
>
> The game sounds interesting, but I hate this line. It makes the grammarian
> in me cringe.

Whereas I like language to be used for effect, not correctness. The
line above gets my attention, and it's a hell of a lot better than
using cliches. (Uh, sorry :)

I was thinking earlier today about a poem by Rosemary Kirstein, which
begins:

"Who has seen her, shadowing down the sky?"

And goes on in the mode, doing *very* weird things with grammar and
meaning, but effective nevertheless.

(I played _The Light_ for a few hours last night, and it looks good.)

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."