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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

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      28/ we kind of agree? separate magesteria - I'm glad we live in a world where anyone can self publish garbage and put it before the eyes of 10,000 people who can't tell feces from wine I'm also glad we live in a world where I can explain the difference https://twitter.com/ZeroBolusZero/status/1253005430487347200 …

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      29/ so getting back to "but it's pulp!" - there's a great @paulg essay about looking up the stack at more powerful programming languages and not understanding that they're more powerful

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      30/ one way to re frame this is "any person lives in an N dimension space, looks down, sees N-1, looks up, sees N [ because they can't appreciate the extra dimension ]" pulprev / red tribe / indy SF often does this: they tell action packed stories, look up and see ...

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      31/ stories that may or may not have tons of action, but also CLAIM to have character development and plotting and good writing style ... and they don't see these things, because their eyes are not attuned to them, and say "LOL, b̵i̵r̵d̵s̵ style aren't real!"

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      32/ the thing is, style ARE real. Technique ARE real. Good writing ARE real. They are ORTHOGONAL to pulp vs non pulp. Pulp partisans often posit a 1-D space of action vs non-action. But let's talk 2-D: action vs non, good vs bad I was actually re-reading >

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      33/ a classic pulp tale last night, "Tumithak of the Corridors" (1932), and it's still fun, easy to read, and WELL WRITTEN. It's got a mighty barbarian hero, paper thin science, a big sword, spider villains. PURE PULP. ...and it's well written.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      34/ read thispic.twitter.com/6oPMtCOb8y

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      35/ What interesting world building! Man kind lives deep underground, and has, for centuries. He has returned to a form of barbarism. Yet there are machines that somehow keep them alive. What an interesting world - it raises so many questions. What do we know of the hero?

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      36/ "Of course he will come..has Tumithak ever failed to [ keep his promises ] ?" The whole arc of the story is spelled out. What is it that makes a man, Mr Lebowski? Is it wearing power armor as torches "gasp" in a pit of putrid soil, in a crude cavern, in a mazelike warren?

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      37/ well, that ... and keeping his promises

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Apr 2020

      38/ Charles R Tanner is writing trashy by-the-word pulp about alien spiders from Venus ... and yet, in half a page he has created a mysterious world we want to explore, a mysterious history we want to learn, and introduced us to a not-yet-a-man hero who always keeps his word.

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        2. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @paulg

          probably should untag paulg

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        3. Eddie, Son of Richard‏ @random_eddie 22 Apr 2020
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          ... he said without doing it🤦‍♂️

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        1. Antitank Round‏ @AntitankRound 22 Apr 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @paulg

          The old pulp gang were always punching above their weight. Much of the time they were trying to write the Great American Novel, but with spaceships thrown in so they could make rent. Dick. Bester. Vance. They were drawing on classics to make new cool stuff.

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