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Playing in a MUD is like wandering through a literary maze. Scenes are sketched out in a phrase or two -- a woody glade, a drafty cave -- and you move from one to the other by typing commands: go west, climb up, enter castle. In your travels, you run into various objects (a giggling robot, a sleeping sloth) as well as other characters. These can be other players, logging on from a remote computer, or cleverly designed computer programs masquerading as humans. You can communicate with anyone you meet by either speaking (typing a message that appears on the other player...
...enemy's lair, all the master's usual, unequaled scenes are on display: the minuet between expert interrogator and expert evader; the battles in London between men of principle and Old Etonian Iagos; the appearance of a beautiful woman who offers a way out of the spy's maze of mirrors. Without raising a sweat, Le Carre propels us from Cairo penthouses to Cornwall pubs, from Quebecois mining towns to secret islands in the Bahamas, from Miami to London to Panama, all of them evoked with an insider's authority...
...makes quick and clean scene cuts into an art. An indecipherable pattern prepares the audience to be on their toes as well as to sit back with their own expectations. Especially well-done are the changes in time that can be as subtle as a run through a hedge maze or as blatant as the date and subject flashing across the screen...
Elsi is only the beginning of a long, paper-filled maze of agencies. Sallie Mae, the Student Loan Marketing Association, is the real culprit. Sallie Mae is no Madonna, but she probably makes more money in a year from poor saps like me than Madonna will make in her whole career. Sallie Mae and Madonna do, however, have one thing in common: bondage. One temptress' whips and chains are another's default notices...
...Murphy says he spends time at the bus office in order to work out the maze of Commencement bus schedules, and that he has no personal relationship to the company. The Massachusetts secretary of state's office does not list Murphy as either a director or owner in the company...