From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sunday, November 23, 2014 5:00:33 PM UTC-5, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   > On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:41:40 -0800, Kay Shapero   
   >  wrote in   
   >    
   > in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >   
   > > 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.   
   >   
   > I got a chuckle out of the opening of Dirk's _Ein Prinz zu   
   > Tulivar_; it's due out next year from Atlantis Verlag, but   
   > the first two chapters have been previewed on the   
   > publisher's site.  My translation:   
   >   
   >    It was cold, it was dark, and snow lay everywhere.   
   >   
   >    Nevertheless, we were determined to find out who   
   >    could pee further.   
      
   Wow. I wonder if he was _there_ that night. He must have been in hiding   
   because the other guys I knew about are dead.   
      
   --   
   Will in New Haven   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)