thread: 2011-05-18 : Ben Lehman: Rules and their Functions
On 2011-05-23, Ben Lehman wrote:
I agree with what you're saying. I think you're repeating what I say at the end of my essay, with the examples of Riddle of Steel and Tony and the Mud Dragon. Right?
As for the second bit, if you're going to claim that Mridangam is freeform but Polaris isn't, I'm lost again.
But we're running up against terminological difficulties here: I think what you mean by "freeform" and what most other people mean by it are different things. I think if I showed Mridangam to, say, a random AmberCon attendee they would identify it as "weird" and possibly "narrative" but definitely not "freeform."
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—Ben
