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* Let and temporary variables
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(Random variations within text; M. Melmoth's Duel)
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Three basic ways to inject random or not-so-random variations into text.
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{*}"M. Melmoth's Duel"
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a room. "Haunt of artists, of the coffee-drinking sort, and of cafés, of the artist-haunted sort, you once again find yourself outside M. Melmoth's hotel. Today [one of]the recently-fallen rain runs down the gutters of the 6th[or]sunlight glints even off the blackened windows of the Abbey[or]crowds of vulgar children play chase around the lampposts[at random], and you long to be indoors."
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The Hôtel d'Alsace is inside from Saint-Germain-des-Prés. "Typical. Oscar writes you a letter announcing his own imminent demise - 'My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.' - and then you get there and he's out, no doubt procuring paint the colour of absinthe, if he isn't procuring the painter."
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Tint is a kind of value. The tints are green, aquamarine and darkish purple.
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The wallpaper is fixed in place in the Hôtel. The wallpaper has a tint. "In this light, the wallpaper has a distinctly [tint of the wallpaper] wash. [if the tint of the wallpaper is darkish purple]You particularly dislike purple.[end if]"
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Before going to the Hôtel: now the wallpaper is a random tint.
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After going from the Hôtel, say "You leave, shaking your head. But within twenty-four hours, you are back, as you always knew you would be."
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Test me with "in / out / look / in / out / look".
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