Hays Code
Example 338
★The following burlesque was considered too much for the tender readers of Chapter 3, since it involved explicit use of listing and persuasion:
"Hays Code"
The Movie Set is a room. Clark Gable is a man in the Movie Set. "Clark leans on a polystyrene pillar, wearing [a list of unconcealed things worn by Clark] with his usual aplomb." Persuasion rule for asking Clark to try doing something: persuasion succeeds.
Clark is wearing a pin-striped suit and a pink thong. Rule for deciding the concealed possessions of Clark: if the particular possession is the thong and Clark is wearing the suit, yes; otherwise no.
Test me with "clark, remove suit / look / clark, remove thong / look".
Test me with "clark, remove suit / look / clark, remove thong / look".
Movie Set
Clark leans on a polystyrene pillar, wearing a pin-striped suit with his usual aplomb.
>(Testing.)
>[1] clark, remove suit
Clark Gable takes off the pin-striped suit.
>[2] look
Movie Set
Clark leans on a polystyrene pillar, wearing a pink thong with his usual aplomb.
>[3] clark, remove thong
Clark Gable takes off the pink thong.
>[4] look
Movie Set
Clark leans on a polystyrene pillar, wearing nothing with his usual aplomb.
Clark leans on a polystyrene pillar, wearing a pin-striped suit with his usual aplomb.
>(Testing.)
>[1] clark, remove suit
Clark Gable takes off the pin-striped suit.
>[2] look
Movie Set
Clark leans on a polystyrene pillar, wearing a pink thong with his usual aplomb.
>[3] clark, remove thong
Clark Gable takes off the pink thong.
>[4] look
Movie Set
Clark leans on a polystyrene pillar, wearing nothing with his usual aplomb.