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The Novel as Software
LukePieStalker writes "Former English professor Eric Brown has published the first work in what he claims is a new literary category called the 'digital epistolary novel', or DEN. 'Intimacies', based on an 18th century novel, requires the DEN 1.2 software. The program's interface has windows for mock e-mail, instant messaging, Web browser and pager, through which the narrative unfolds. For those wishing to create their own works in this genre, Mr. Brown is marketing composition software called DEN WriterWare."
I know this is going to sound silly, but I read the title as "The Novell as Software"! Did anyone else make that mental typo, or "mypo"?
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
Great: first of all there's no link in the NY times article to find where this guy's homepage is. Then I go to google, and the first link is a guy named "Eric Brown" who's an FBI top ten wanted person. But hey, this Eric Brown has published a guide to all Eric Browns on the net. Thank you!
Maan
Interesting concept. Sometimes it would feel nice to virtually live another life in such a detailed manner. This one is making me sleepy.
Now if only Microsoft could do something with this.....
*naps in his cube dreaming of malware-infected reading materials*
Interesting idea. But new literary category? Please.
I imagined a choose your own adventure novel online. If you pick the machine gun turn to page 36 if you pick the rocket launcher turn to page 54.
Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some pimpin in it
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
WTF?!?
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Well, you cannot pirate a novel, since if you copy it, it's not novel any more, is it?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
arrrrrrr, me likes a good pirate novel to while away the time on a long third watch!!!
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Oh God, I've gotta go, one of "Them" just came into the library...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Yeah, except that he should have studied Medieval Lit., too, and then he'd know that the omniscient narrator has been around longer than the epistolary novel.
Just be sure to wear the gold uniform when you beam down -- you know what happens when you wear the red one.
The program's interface has windows for mock e-mail, instant messaging, Web browser and pager, through which the narrative unfolds.
Just browsing through the table of contents...
Chapter I: John deletes his spam
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Chapter II: John closes a million popups
Chapter III: John deletes more spam
Chapter IV: John cybers **hotChIcKa69**
Chapter V: John deletes more spam and sets up a new mail client
Chapter VI: John closes more popups, installs Mozilla
Chapter VII: John deletes more spam, puts his fist through the monitor
Chapter VIII: John goes to the hospital