MODERN LIFE — THE COMPUTER AGE
I read a review of a book entitled The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed (Warner Books, New York, 1984). It is a book that was written by a computer program called Racter (short for Raconteur). It is filled with essays, poems, limericks, stories and conversations, all of which were written by a computer. Here’s a few of the delightful items Racter came up with: From water and from time
A visage bounds and tumbles
I seek sleep and need repose
But miss the quiet movement
Of my dreams. Enthralling surgeons will dance quickly with tripping stenographers. They will sing and chant of their passion and their love and their desire. They will yodel their dreams to the stenographers who will answer and respond: ‘We ponder that hedges are like bushes.’ Bill and Marcellis skipped speedily down the highway
to Bill’s cottage crooning,
‘Get ready for an ongoing ambiguity.’
Instantly they recognized…
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