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The Internet Opera or, The waves of cyberspace Home Are you sure you're at the right Internet Opera??? Words and Music Copyright © 2001-2003 by T. J. Fatchen (Flying Tadpole) Website Copyright © 2003 TJ Fatchen (Flying Tadpole)
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The Internet Opera or, The Waves of Cyberspace ___________________ A Comic Opera in Two Acts and Three Scenes Summary: Virtual reality proves an unsafe haven for egos adrift on the internet. Synopsis: Learn what lies below the surface of the Internet! Forget the World Wide Web, the mass pornographic emailings, e-commerce and the dotcom crasheroos. Discover instead the rampant egos, the shifting alliances and betrayals, the trolls and traps, the virtual cruelties and the email flames permanently burning through the keyboards of the immoderate, unmoderated discussion newsgroups. Within this unreal Internet reality, two sailboaters battle for the souls and the leadership of the rabble of wannabes who make up a sailboating email discussion group. Actual and virtual realities blur and merge as they struggle. Both fighters have intentions valid on their own terms, but both are doomed by their own personal flaws. And both are hamstrung by their manipulators, by the stupidity and cowardice of their audience, and, in the end, by bureaucratic lack of humour. Not even the best efforts of the heroine, the only Internet subscriber with a conscience, can save the fighters, the manipulators, the whole newsgroup, and herself, from ultimate disaster.. |
