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From: "delancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CRAIG WROTE:
I agree about mythopoeia -- I should have said spec fic, and didn't
mean to endorse any genre distinctions as we understand them in our
camp. But it is strangely fascinating -- we're used to worldbuilding
in fiction, but here the artist just skips the narrative and goes
straight to the worldbuilding. And it can have a strange, unique kind
of beauty.
SALLY:
>>
Can't it, though! Skipping the narrative. I've been indulging in such
pursuits since I was a kid, and that's what my next book is going to be
about ("Making Models"). Thanks for this bookmark...I've long intended to
put "Leadora" on-line, like I did Teonaht--in both cases skipping the
"narrative." That's what the problem has been with regard to selling the
beauty of language invention to an outsider: they don't see the narrative,
so they don't see the point, or that "strange, unique kind of beauty."
I think this kind of thing is what Dana has been up to, as well; however, he
has not only a narrative running through his invented city, but hundreds of
narratives. What he has that we don't is a CAD to back it up. I want a CAD.
Sarah
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On Oct 12, 4:01 pm, "Sally Caves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As an inventor of languages AND imaginary cities (worked on in my early
> teens) with maps, street names, birds eye view paintings and drawings, and
> stories about this city that exists in my memory and imaginings as "real"
> to
> me, or virtually real, this kind of thing seems more along the lines of
> creative languages and mythopoeia. I have turned it into science fiction
> (The Doll Town of Leadora Whittier Whitcomb), but it's more like a
> separate
> artform. This kind of thing is why Second Life appeals to me so
> viscerally.
> I wrote the author. I am interested in adult forms of play that develop
> out
> of childhood fascinations (dolls, maps, language invention, floorplans)
> that
> we put away unless we go into AI, cartography, linguistics or interior
> design for professional purposes--and that are now flouirishing because of
> digital media.
>
> Sally/Sarah
>
> BTW, I'm now on FaceBook... I've been there for a while but I only really
> activated it this week. "Sally Caves." I don't know how I am going to keep
> all this up.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "delancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association"
>
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:59 AM
> Subject: A kind of science fiction?
>
> > http://urvillecity.free.fr/index.Urville-ENG.htm
>
> > cd
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