Who's On:

Character	Level	Login Time	Login Type
Marvin, a maniacally depressed robot of TriadCity	25	Wednesday, June 12, 2019 3:50:59 PM UTC	ROBOT
Eliza, Psychotherapist <'tell' me your troubles> of TriadCity	25	Wednesday, June 12, 2019 3:50:58 PM UTC	ROBOT
Death of TriadCity	25	Wednesday, June 12, 2019 3:50:48 PM UTC	ROBOT
Help, Automated Support <'ask' me questions> of TriadCity	25	Wednesday, June 12, 2019 3:50:44 PM UTC	ROBOT
Oscar, Witty Guy of TriadCity	25	Wednesday, June 12, 2019 3:50:34 PM UTC	ROBOT

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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)