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TriadCity Message of the Day
2004-08-03
TriadCity's newspaper,
The Adventurer,
now has an office to call its own. Located in the Southern
Third, it's the working home of TelGar, Occam, and future
journalist colleagues.
Reporters will note the presence of the CityNet terminals they
must use to transfer their rewarded experience. Get to it Occam,
this means you!
Reporter is not yet an official Role. But if you'd like
to write for the Adventurer, just email TelGar with your ideas.
Back to the MOTD index.
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"Burroughs's zone, or interzone, is a vast, ramshackle structure in which all the world's architectural styles are are fused and all its races and cultures mingle .... Sometimes it is located in Latin America or North Africa, sometimes (as in The Ticket That Exploded, 1962) on another planet, sometimes (as in Cities of the Red Night,, 1981) in a lost civilization of the distant past. By contrast, Alasdair Gray's zone (in Lanark, 1981), a space of paradox modeled on the Wonderland and Looking-glass worlds of the Alice books, has been displaced to the ambiguous no man's land between cities .... Pynchon's zone is paradignmatic for the heterotopian space of postmodernist writing .... Here ... a large number of fragmentary possible worlds coexist in an impossible space which is associated with occupied Germany, but which is in fact located nowhere but in the written text itself."
--Brian McHale,
Postmodernist Fiction (info)
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