[UA] Re: Contagious Meme Artifact

[erik.t.isford at convergys.com]

Mark Hughes Wrote:

>I've long argued that this is the purpose of biographies and
>autobiographies, and why I don't read them - they're attempts to
>replicate some or all of your personality into the host minds of your
>readers.  It's a low-tech version of the War of the Memes (c.f. John
>Barnes, _Kaleidescope Century_ and _Candle_).

>You could make a school of magic for this, but it'd be better as a
>ritual or an artifact, perhaps.


...Like whatsernuts' memebook from the end of the UA core book...  Damn,
can't remember her name offhand...  The Polish woman and the eight(?)
handwritten copies of herself that are floating around...  That great
discription of the ink on the page wriggling off and invading the reader
once the reading is complete.

Brrr.

See, as a well-trained postmodernist, that particular image resonates, 'cuz
hey -- it's the *reader* who's supposed to inhabit the text, right Mr.
Iser?  :)

Erik.
Still Mr. Teapot's number one fan.

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