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Date: 2013-04-21 06:00 pm (UTC)The Sea Wasp sat at his computer, contemplating the reply just posted by "Doc Lemming". He wondered, idly, why his respondent had chosen that particular nom du net, and then turned his attention to the response itself. It seems, the Wasp thought, that Doc Lemming has surety where he should not.
Decision made, the Wasp began his response.
Response:
Actually, I'm not aware of specific disadvantages of prologues. To me they've always just been a chapter in a book that has the convenience of letting me know stuff that I might not know if he just jumped straight into the book, and that will allow me a better perspective on the events of the main book. It never occurred to me to skip a prologue, as some here have mentioned. Well, with the obvious exception of skipping a prologue I'd already read and didn't need to re-read because I remembered it well enough. It would be like deciding to skip any other random chapter; I presume the author didn't just type the chapter for their finger exercise.