“Will the real Raman please stand up?” The fourth post is using my Penguin Wiki name. I don’t mind if he, or she is allowed to do this under a different password, but I don’t want his or her ideas, edits, contributions, or more potentially negative behaviors confused with mine.
By the way, “a social experiment” is a good term for this enterprising process. I think it taught us all quite a bit about the nature of creative semi- anonymous cooperation. Many got to philosophize about their concept of what constitutes a novel, and I must say that the general view appears to be surprisingly conservative, considering the full blown evolution of post modernism and writers like Burroughs, Barthelme, Hawkes, Nabokov, Coover, Pycnchon, Acker, and Kundera. All of these fine authors comment quite considerably on the changing form of the novel, via meta-fiction and the style of their writing as a holistic process. I thought, by now, the evolving aspect of the novel as a still fertile non-linear creative process, not product, has reached the status of second hand knowledge, but once again, I am dumbfounded with a more traditional public viewpoint.
Thank you for allowing me to participate. Even if too many cooks may have spoiled the soup, none of the fun of making it was ruined.

Yours in the ever changing process,

Raman

I agree with Neri’s comments above.

sure ‘opening this experiment up to the world caused problems’, as you said. But the importance of this experiment was in the freedom of expression. On the whole I found respect and collaboration. On the way maybe Penguins community found its good identity through ‘natural election’. Greetings to everyone.

Neri

I have never met anyone called ‘Carlo’, ‘Inu’ or ‘Jeremy’.

In my capacity as chief instructor at Greenshields Driving School, I have always taken great pride in my family, my work, my name.

And now, this…