| Forget what Virginia Woolf said about
what a writer needs--a room of one’s own. The writer she has in mind wasn’t at
work on a novel in cyberspaee, one with multiple hypertexts, animated graphics
and downloads of trance, charming music. For that you also need graphic
interfaces, Real Player and maybe even a computer laboratory at Brown
University. That was where Mark Amerika--his legally adopted name; don’t ask him
about his birth name--composed much of his novel Gramatron. But Grammatron isn’t
just a story. It’s an online narrative (gramatron. com) that uses the
capabilities of cyberspace to tie the conventional story line into complicated
knots. In the four years it took to produce-it was completed in 1997-each new
advance in computer software became another potential story device. "I became
sort of dependent on the industry," jokes A. differences between conventional and modern novels B. how Mark Amerika composed his novel Gramatron C. common features of all modern electronic novels D. why Mark Amerika took on a new way of writing [填空题]Patrick Kelly
Just think what would happen in this city if everyone who usually drives a car decided to use mass transportation and appeared on the nearest street corner. The city would have to provide almost 4,000 additional passenger buses to carry these people to their jobs. When the city is ready to promise the citizens that these buses will be there, at that corner, at that time, and take them to where they are going on time, then we will be ready to discuss limitations on the use of automobiles. Joseph Award We are wasting our time and good money’ by asking scientists to solve the problem of air pollution. They are blaming cars and motorist. Nonsense! It is the smoke from factories that is ruining our air. I believe that these so-called scientists should try working in a factory from midnight to 8 a. m. , and maybe they would discover something that would surprise them. If the scientists could use their knowledge to direct the winds in such away as 我来回答: 提交
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