Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[david@atlan.cix.co.uk (David Brain)]

In article <ant081944345M+4%@gnelson.demon.co.uk>, 
graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk (Graham Nelson) wrote:

> Much as "Eliza" was a Rogerian psychotherapist, "Groan" provided
> a sort of artificially intelligent Claude Levi-Strauss, offering
> structuralist analyses of all literary forms.  The classic
> "groan with drwho" option, for instance, used a database of all
> 170 Dr Who plots arranged in a Vladimir Propp-like fashion in
> order to explore the Derridean jouissance of a random story in
> Dr Who-space, piecing together fragments such as "but the Master
> escapes in a hovercraft" with an almost... an almost authorial
> bricolage.

Now I might have sent this in to Pseud's Corner in Private Eye, but then I realised that 
Graham was being serious.

(apologies to non-UK readers who probably don't know what I'm talking about. Of 
course, I could now spend several lines explaining the reference but there wouldn't be 
much point as over-analysing a weak joke just makes the whole thing even more 
embarrassing to both the writer and the reader.  So I don't think I'll bother.  In fact, just 
forget you ever read this post.)

-- 
David Brain
London, UK