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Mutatis Mutandi

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Jackson's MuTT bit me.

Is this a narrative or a game or a _____ ?

I tried going back and putting in what I thought were valid answers for various people I knew (without their knowledge or consent, of course). The test results came out different, and even had some resonance with my own unauthorized opinions.

I went back and tried to refine my own responses, making different choices that still seemed valid for myself. I did this three times, and the results were always identical. Clearly, I am just too much of a 3-eyed disopropic parapagus to realize it, whatever that means, and Ms. Jackson is working with some kind of system, whatever that may be.

Look! Music!

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Text will continue to become more notably and markedly visual, but these highly inflected texts will supplant or augment not narrative, but lyric forms because they function similarly.

To show how this works, let me show you a favorite Emily Dickinson piece.

Circumference, thou bride
Of awe, -- possessing, thou
Shalt be possessed by
Every hallowed knight
That dares to covet thee.

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