Re: Fw: Yikes!
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 04 Dec 1998 21:28:27 +1100
Well ... this is what my boyfriend had to say about the `Yikes' post ....
maybe it was a nice metaphor but apparently it wasn't good computing ...
> Not only is the peron who wrote this wrong, they are also a wanker
> ;) This is, I think, another form of the insidious '1 oh 4 dot 1' or
> 'internet Clothing' --- just cashing on the techno-chic that everyone
> seems to be into at the moment ( ref: one man to te other ---
> Man 1: 'We need to be on the Internet'
> Man 2: 'Why?'
> Man 1: Blank stare. 'I don't know - we just do.' )
>
> There are many forms of this absurdity, like the councillor who
> wouldn't approve of dogs with electronc chips implanted in their necks to
> allow for easy identification --- because 'you don't know what's in them
> --- they might explode or something'
>
> And you wonder why people irritate me.
>
> Seeya,
> Simon
>
> 'Extra-temporal' --- Sheesh.
>
> > Hi Simon (:,
> > Someone forwarded this e-mail to me and I thought you might understand
it
> > better than I did (: Seriously, I think if you read this you might
> > understand my story `Translation' a little better. I intended it to be
> > about the way we perceive stuff, and how perception is individual and
> > prejudiced, etc. Anyway ...
> >
> > > In a sense, what we're doing when reading is downloading a program.
> > > Because of our capacity for running the subroutines as we go, we feel
> > > we're comprehending the text, but actually we're simply compiling and
> > > running the subset of the program consisting of sentences read up to
the
> > > present moment along with associations and references ("links" if you
> > > will) unique to each of us (but in some cases, perhaps many cases,
common
> > > to a reading community). Once we have read, say, Paradise Lost and
set
> > > down the book, we can now run the entire program (which requires
those
> > > "natural tears" for its full impact) almost as a kind of
extratemporal
> > > (as well as hypertextual and experiential) gestalt. The poem is never
> > > actually on the page, except as code, perhaps analogous to machine
> > > language; it is something, different upon each downloading, that
moves
> > > from author to reader, and lives fully only in the life, individually
and
> > > collectively, of its readers -- of whom the author is but
> > > one.
Camille
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