Reading up on the ideas behind this interactive fiction and the way it was designed
is actually more interesting to me then actually participating in it. The design is very
simple, but the fact that Short is actually trying to follow the way that conversation
works and where all of the possibilities may go make it very intricate. This goes
beyond just choosing pathways through a story and into what the different outcomes
actually mean. It seems a very daunting task to keep symmetry within the story while
trying to that and Short does this effectively. This mode can cause some reader
disorientation as you make your way through the story, but that in itself seems to be
part of the point of what is going on.