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In article <C0qx5B.33H@unx.sas.com> sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)  
writes:
> 
> ...[Re:] the concept of a read-one-time work.  It seems to me
> that the same general idea, combined with some of the hypertext tricks
> that Tom Maddox described, could produce a work that changed each time
> you read it--it could be re-read, but never the same text twice.  Now
> THAT, I think, has some interesting possibilities.
> 
> For example, if you went back and re-read the same sex scene too often,
> the characters could start getting the feeling they were being watched,
> and become more inhibited.  Eventually, they might decide just to go out
> to dinner instead.

ooooooooooo EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE eeeeeeeeeeee ooooooooooo ...

Except that the author would either have to think out all the possibilities in  
advance and write them in, or have one HELL of an AI program.  (Well, not  
exactly HAL, but a pretty sophisticated Natural Language Generator and a model  
of the fictional world for it to work from.)

--
Frank Mitchell,	Business Systems Analyst, First National Bank of Chicago
email:frank@fnbc.com (NeXTmail)

"'I am that merry wanderer of the night'?  I am that giggling, dangerous,  
totally bloody psychotic menace to life and limb, more like it."
-- Peaseblossom, _Sandman_ #19