This is how you will die

"This is how you will die invokes the many plot points that individuals influenced by movies and novels insert into their lives to give it shape, but applies to them an over-the-top satirical whimsy typical of Nelson's absurdist worldview. Rather than providing the reader with innocuous, ambivalent fortune cookie-like predictions, Nelson takes the protagonist, you, and subjects him/her to fortunes and misfortunes that would frighten a test-crash dummy, and tops it off with a coda in the form of an important 'post-death' event. As in other Nelson works, the interface is a familiar one, in this case the slot machine and the aesthetic is one of scrawls, gaudy noises and psychotic humming. However, the central focus of this biographical Mad Lib is the slippery hand of chance in a world characterized by Hanna Barbara changes of fate." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2

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The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 2

Published in 2011 by Electronic Literature Organization.

The ELO gave this copy of the work to the Electronic Literature Lab in 2018.

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