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Friday, January 17, 2014
Why a deus ex machina doesn’t make a satisfying story.
Posted on 7:37 AM
by christofer D
Before I start this post I want
to apologize for the long gap between this post and the last. I was deep in a project that took up a
lot of my time and mental energy. That project is more or less done—more
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