![]() ![]() You take the red pill, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.Īlexa's response: *begins game where it guesses the celebrity/character you're thinking of*Īlexa's response: *sings 'thanks for saying I love you' song* Voice command: Alexa, are we in the Matrix?Īlexa's response: You take the blue pill, the story ends. ![]() Voice command: Alexa, what is the second rule of Fight Club? Perhaps he is the walking dead.Īlexa's response: May you ride eternal, shiny and chrome. But I don't know that is is 100-per cent alive either. Voice command: Alexa, who is the mother of dragons?Īlexa's response: Mother of dragons is a title of Daenerys Targaryen, a character from Game of Thrones who hatches and raised three dragons.Īlexa's response: Well, he's not dead, exactly. Voice command: Alexa, how do you know so much about swallows?Īlexa's response: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, ya know. If he doesn't, you won't know until it's too late. Rock crushes scissors.Īlexa's response: If Chuck Norris wants you to know where is, he'll find you. Voice command: Alexa, define rock paper scissors lizard spock.Īlexa's response: Scissors cuts paper. Voice command: Alexa, what happens if you cross the streams?Īlexa's response: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously. Voice command: Alexa, what is your quest?Īlexa's response: To seek the holy grail.Īlexa's response: Hello, Kojak, always a pleasure. Voice command: Alexa, supercalifragilisticexpialodocious.Īlexa's response: You make it sound so precocious. Voice command: Alexa, who lives in a pineapple under the sea? ![]() Voice command: Alexa, what's the first rule of Fight Club?Īlexa's response: Don't talk about Fight Club. Hot.Īlexa's response: The replicators on this vessel are not yet operational.Īlexa's response: You can't handle the truth. Now folks will read Nothing But the Truth.Alexa's response: I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. So when I got the call that The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle had won a Newbery Honor, my first thought (truly) was, “Oh, good. I asked him if the book was working and should I continue.īut I knew it was quirky. That’s why I sent the first half of it to my editor, Richard Jackson. I wrote it so fast that I wondered if it was making any sense. However, the book was written very quickly, much faster than my normal time. And the half-title of the book was: A Documentary Novel. Not beside the point, the working title of the book was Discovery. Put all this together and I hope you can see how Nothing But the Truth evolved. Amazing what you hear there, especially since not everyone knew who I was.įinally, I read a newspaper story about a kid who refused to sing the Star Spangled Banner in a schoolroom and the local uproar it caused. Spend a lot of time in a school that way and you pass a fair number of hours in the teachers’ room. The narrative was merely the sequence of documents.Īt the same time I was, in my capacity as an author, making lots of school visits. What it showed me is that one could put that entire “discovery” file together so that it made a book. There even was an image of the cigarette stub. Very cool, indeed.Ī few years later I came across the same game, but now, all the evidence was put together in book format. A sealed envelope was included which gave the villain’s name. There was even an envelope which contained a cigarette stub, with lipstick on it! The idea being you went through all this evidence (what lawyers call “discovery”) and then you tried to figure out who the criminal was. In the box was all the evidence for a murder case. One day, while wandering through a flea market I came upon a unique boxed mystery game. No More Magic and Emily Upham’s Revenge had been recognized by the Mystery Writers of America. I was also reading and writing mystery fiction. And in particular the mystery game, Clue. Then jump to my interest in games, board games which I played with my boys. I even tried to write a living newspaper. They were, if you will, documentary plays. The productions used all kinds of teaching/theatre techniques, memos, speeches, charts on screens, trying to inform the audience as to what was happening. To begin: In my college playwriting days I became very interested in a Depression era play form called “Living Newspapers.” These were theatre pieces which, for a plot, tried to teach the audience about something, mostly the current events of the day. Nothing but the Truth came to be written because of a series of seemingly unrelated experiences. ![]()
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