From: kay@invalid.net   
      
   In article , mdhangton@gmail.com says...   
      
      
   >   
   > Of course, we want to be interesting, the get the quality of being   
   > interesting.  What do you think makes a fragment or piece of writing   
   > interesting?   
      
   No idea - but John Varley's celebrated opener to Steel Beach certainly   
   got my attention. Partly unexpectedness, partly if the author got that   
   one through, the rest of the book should be interesting too which it   
   turned out to be.   
      
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