Liner Notes: The Ontological Engine

[vinnie_tesla]

The first pseudo-victorian writing I did was a short piece called Victim/Victorian, inspired by my love/hate relationship to real Victorian porn. Later, I renamed it Victim/Victorian, Chapter 1: City Manners to make room for the subsequent episodes that kept creeping out of my keyboard. When I finally brought that project to a conclusion in 2006, I

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[mightyfastpig]

The geoducks makes me think of the bioengineered fleshlight things in Connie Willis' story "All my darling daughters"

Thanks for letting us peep behind the curtain.

(Are there liner notes anymore in the age of downloads? When I do posts like this, I call them DVD commentaries.)

[vinnie_tesla]

Imma have to seek that Willis story out. I tend to think of her as squeaky clean (unsurprisingly, I loved her Victorian comedy, To Say Nothing of the Dog.)

I would have a hard time resisting doing commentary tracks, if there was a way to actually annotate the text. However, I think i'd feel compelled to do it in character, a la Spinal Tap or the Veggietales movie.

[mightyfastpig]

In principle, you could have an ebook format with commentary that's tied to the main text like footnotes, and a switch in the viewer that would toggle the commentary between visible and invisible. Annotations, in another word.