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Old Apr 24th, 2006, 07:25 PM       
When I referenced the mass confusion in this thread, some of that included your perception that we're taking you seriously.

See, in all honesty I too authored a book and shamelessly promoted it on these message boards. You can actually research this and discover not a sliver of exaggeration. My redemption comes from the fact that, even with an unremarkable post count and relative anonymity, I still had half a decade of web presence in this community before I milked these suckers.

Not having beef with people is normal enough, but throwing in fish just kind of insinuates that you're talking about genitals.

The best thing about Choose Your Own Adventure books was that in elementary school, I'd read one with a deliberately short lifespan so that I'd quickly be done reading a book with more pages than I really wanted to deal with. Aside from that, I think if there were anything to be said for interactive books then Victor Hugo would let you choose the destiny of Jean Valjean or Tolstoy the outcome of the Crimean War. Maybe constructs like "character development" or "plot" or "theme" are just tools of the literary bourgeoisie to maintain alienation of the literary proletariat, but I think I'll side with the Old Regime because they're just cute.

For the rough effect you're soliciting, I think I'd achieve it with much better results by having someone code a random page generator sourced with Thundercats fanfic.
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