Let's play . . . you be the . . . the reader person, OK?

You're . . . you know, sitting there
all smart and everything with your coffee . . .
and you're like: 'Hey, why don't I check
my e-mail?'

And then I'll be like the . . . the ebr e-mail-writer person
and I'll be all like: 'Hey, if you want to check out
something that's super-smart,
click right on over to "Second Person,
Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media"

at ebr
www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/
firstperson

which is, like, the second part of
Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan's
smash-hit three-part trilogy
"First Person" "Second Person" and the future "Third Person"
which are all groups of essays about Story, Performance and Game . . .

(I guess all trilogies have three parts. Duh! Anyway.)

. . . and you'll be like: 'Dang!
that e-mail was right!
It is soooo smart
to start in Section One
by looking at old tabletop role-playing games
from this, like, intense literary-criticism-style point of view."

Plus then the coolest thing:
WHEN you get to ebr
www.electronicbookreview.com

what you GET is the exact MIT-Press-co-published-style text
PLUS
it is utterly possible for people to like
RESPOND to one of the "Second Person" essays
and submit their OWN, disagreeing essay

and you'll be like: 'Wow! This is like a
book
except it's, like, ALIVE!

ebr where have you BEEN all my life?"

Let's play that, OK?
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