tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22992265.post406811120206845207..comments2023-11-02T09:18:44.063-04:00Comments on Old English in New York: Do we need a Second Life?Mary Kate Hurleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14892991966276345782noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22992265.post-32826615664633791632007-03-09T17:46:00.000-05:002007-03-09T17:46:00.000-05:00This isn't a coherent response so much as a set of...This isn't a coherent response so much as a set of associations, so take it as you will...<BR/><BR/>For some reason Second Life reminds me of the ladies and gentleman in The Decameron who were able to escape the plague because of their wealth, to live to tell stories, many of which were about the kind of people who wouldn't have been able to escape as they did. <BR/><BR/>Which is to say, if a contemporary MMO reminds me of Boccaccio (heh, that rhymes), then maybe literature does have something to say in its own virtual ways. And it's not just becuase I'm a medievalist, because I read The Decameron in college and was intrigued by it from the start.<BR/><BR/>So there are things both potentially positive and problematic with the imaginative worlds of literature and gaming.<BR/><BR/>That's all I've got at the moment. Brain is fried from proofreading and indexing.Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.com