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Dear Brian,

I was tickled to get your letter, have been mulling it over, and am
finally writing back to say that I don't--@ the moment!--have anything
further to say about Taleb/insights I might have found in him either about
"narrative and probability" or about "natural narrative behavior" (as you
asked). But you have given me an opening for something I'd like to think
about further, something maybe you can help me with...

I'm scheduled to teach a new course @ Bryn Mawr this spring on
"emerging genres" (find draft description @
/exchange/courses/genre/s08 ).
Though you'll see from the overview that I'm not interested in joining you
in "cementing a narrative genre," your description of your work with
"chaotic fictions" and "alternate-reality games" --"interactive forms of
narrative w/ high levels of randomness"--has provoked me to think some
more about how I want to think, talk and teach about the transformations
of genre. Work with me on this? Let's keep on talking...?

Anne