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Sadly, around the time I was breaking into the Biz, the Quantifiers were beginning to arrive, too. Not that they had not had representation over previous years—E. Nelson Bridwell was a prime example—but they had mostly been suppressed by the Old Guard.

But by the Seventies there was a growing contingent of writers who seemed incapable of coming up with a story unless they were explaining something. (And, yes, I scurried down that rabbit hole myself a few times, especially in my early days.)

OHOTMU was the ultimate manifestation of this, something that began as a good idea but quickly degenerated into RPG mentality.