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Time in games works differently than in narratives. The relation between the reader/viewer and the story world is different than the relation between the player and the game world. "This duality not only renders possible all the temporal distortions that are commonplace in narratives (three years of the hero's life summed up in two sentences of a novel or in a few shots of a "frequentative" montage in film, etc.) More basically, it invites us ...

Words take on their meaning from their positioning in a network of a sentence, a sentence that's nestled in the network of a paragraph, a paragraph that's nestled in the network of a complete document, a complete document that's nestled in the network of a culture, and a culture that's nestled in an Era of history, a culture that's networked into a historical period in whose context the words make sense. Is there a specific reason the autho...

It's hard to argue that word problems, or puzzles, used as they are in our schools as disposable exercises, could be lived with over time, and seen to have inexhaustible levels of meaning (as a parable in the religious sense), particularly poetic meaning about the depths of human experience. There is certainly the element of the indescribable involved in mathematical concepts, particularly those that deal with infinity, or with entities that e...

In a 1793 text called On the Sublime (Vom Erhabenen), Schiller argues that the mathematical sublime ought to be labeled the theoretical sublime. Most contemporary theorists feel uncomfortable about ascribing significance to inaudible relationships to music, we tend to assume that there should be some meaningful relationship between analysis and auditory experience. Now consider that any entity in a music system is a "thought-object." A music o...

In the title, the word 'uncompleted' suggest that five words were purposely uncompleted, rather than inherently incomplete. When we use the word 'incomplete', we're focusing on the condition something is in at that moment and stating that it's missing something. When we use 'uncompleted, ' we're focusing more on the fact that work still needs to be done on or to something in order to finish it. We're not thinking so much about the fact that so...

The Beach Boys "Smile Sessions" box set caused much internet discussion and debate among fans of the legendary unfinished album "SMiLE" from 1966/67. The pages and pages of scholarly debate contrasted with mindless banter regarding prices, shipping and content was a phenomenon to behold, and a fascinating look into pure obsession. No attempt was made to use the most interesting bits from the discussions. The author simply chose a discussion --...

The Sound of the Given Name 'Angela' is three syllables (the first syllable is accented). The name Itself is located Individually on page 428 and once within the 30 word dedication on (unnumbered) page 5. The header and the page number (printed on each page starting on page 8) are intentionally left off of page 428 and the text is set in Arial font. The text of the name Angela on page 428 is set in Garamond.

The title for this novel explains what is seen on/between p.32 through 474. In particular an excerpt from a novel titled "The Pink Bunny" about an abstract painter. The words "Pink" and "Bunny" are also the frame that serves to enclose the excerpt, created out of the reality of the title itself. The excerpt is followed by many blank pages, but this emptiness still exists within the frame of "Pink" and "Bunny." The frame "Pink" and "Bunny" does...

Six groups (of two interior monologues) are located at six different locations, with Group 1 and 2 separated by 206 pages, 2 and 3 separated by 30 pages, 3 and 4 separated by 230 pages, 4 and 5 separated by 160 pages, and 5 and 6 separated by 90 pages. Groups are located on pages 217 (interior monologue A on page 219 and interior monologue B on page 223 is Group 1), 11 (interior monologue A on page 13 and interior monologue B on page 15 is Gro...

Note: the painting in the book is printed in black and white. The Lulu preview shows the painting in color. Debates have arisen as to whether all biographies are fiction, especially when authors are writing about figures from the past. All history is seen through a perspective that is the product of our contemporary society and as a result biographical truths are constantly shifting. So the history biographers write about will not be the wa...

The phrase (after Christian Bok) does a variety of things: It cites him as the author of an earlier work ("The Great Order of the Universe") that inspired Van Buskirk who used the words. It adds another layer of meaning to the work who cites the author - now readers can look at both and see how the two are similar or differ. It creates a history about the topic under discussion that both informs and questions. It may constrain the current a...

Individual sheets of paper accurately represent a lot of things, but is the world one of them? Even a math word-problem can become a powerful testimonial to the presence of the world if the problem begins and ends with an accurate representation of itself. Perhaps the 'quotidian viewpoint' doesn't measurably move the needle on our engagement in interesting stories. They're 'real world' so we are disarmed of their usual question, "When will I e...

This Graphic Novel focuses on visual comprehension skills as they apply to mathematics story problems. Traditionally 'story problems' depend on reading comprehension skills for the development of successful problem-solving strategies. Once addition, subtraction, multiplication, division are learned in school, the students encounter story problems, also known as word problems, which require the student to read a problem and decide which operati...

A fictional memoir about the infamous record collector and bootlegger. The Beach Boys appeal strikes a chord with certain personalities who can relate to them in some way beyond liking their music on the surface. There are now dozens of popular books, both non-fiction and fiction, that can help to shed light on Asperger's Syndrome, either by representing a three-dimensional character with the syndrome, by directly explaining the ins and outs o...

Publishing public domain and PLR books is a numbers racket to some degree. It will depend on the niche and the earlier recognition of that author and work. The quality on these vary intensely. Some of the more recent ones are better written and edited. Now they are coming with high-quality covers and source files to edit them fully. Like public domain, there are essentially limitless competition out there with all these copies. But also like p...

The Indiscerniblity of Identicals is the principle that if two objects are absolutely identical then they must be indistinguishable from one another with respect to all of their properties. But does that include the context of the identical objects? The notion of identical gives rise to many philosophical problems, including: 1. What does it mean for an object to be the same as itself? 2. If x and y are identical (are the same thing), must the...

The novel is essentially constructed of two parts, the categories and the clues. It is a mystery regarding four characters in the form of a logic grid puzzle. In each puzzle you are given a series of categories, and an equal number of options within each category. Each option is used once and only once. Each puzzle has only one unique solution, and each can be solved using simple logical processes (i.e. educated guesses are not required). The ...