Nano (Continuous Ultimate)

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Etiquetas: hernando tellez, matemáticas, personajes, roommate, uiuc, ultimate
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Although Atlas is not a machine built to handle textual materials, he uses the dead hours of the night to get it to print out thousands of lines in the style of Pablo Neruda, using as a lexicon a list of the most powerful words in The Height of Macchu Picchu, in Nathaniel Tarn's translation. He brings the thick wad of paper back to the Royal Hotel and pores over it. 'The nostalgia of teapots.' 'The ardour of shutters.' 'Furious horsemen.' If he cannot, for the present, write poetry that comes from the heart, if his heart is not in the right state to generate poetry of its own, can he at least string together pseudo-poems made up of phrases generated by a machine, and thus, by going through the motions of writing, learn again to write? Is it fair to be using mechanical aids to writing — fair to other poets, fair to the dead masters? The Surrealists wrote words on slips of paper and shook them up in a hat and drew words at random to make up lines. William Burroughs cuts up pages and shuffles them and puts the bits together. Is he not doing the same kind of thing? Or do his huge resources — what other poet in England, in the world, has a machine of this size at his command — turn quantity into quality? Yet might it not be argued that the invention of computers has changed the nature of art, by making the author and the condition of the author's heart irrelevant? On the Third Programme he has heard music from the studios of Radio Cologne, music spliced together from electronic whoops and crackles and street noise and snippets of old recordings and fragments of speech. Is it not time for poetry to catch up with music?
He sends a selection of his Neruda poems to a friend in Cape Town, who publishes them in a magazine he edits. A local newspaper reprints one of the computer poems with a derisive commentary. For a day or two, back in Cape Town, he is notorious as the barbarian who wants to replace Shakespeare with a machine.J.M. Coetzee, Youth
Etiquetas: atlas, j.m. coetzee, literatura, máquinas, poesía, programming, youth

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You've read about it in the newspapers! Now, shudder as you observe, before your very eyes, that most rare and tragic of nature's mistakes!
I give you... The average man.
Physically unremarkable, it has instead a deformed set of values.
Notice the hideously bloated sense of humanity's importance. The club footed social conscience and the withered optimism.
It's certainly not for the squeamish, is it?
Most repulsive of all, are its frail and useless notions of order and sanity. If too much weight is placed upon them...
...they snap.
How does it live, I hear you ask?
How does this poor, pathetic specimen survive in today's harsh and irrational world?
The sad answer is "not very well."
Faced with the inescapable fact that human existence is mad, random and pointless, one in eight of them crack up and go stark slavering buggo!
Who can blame them? In a world as psychotic as this...
...any other response would be crazy!
Etiquetas: alan moore, madness, the average man, the killing joke
"¿Qué fue? ¿Un meteorito? ¿Una visita de habitantes del abismo cósmico? Sea como sea, nuestro país ha presenciado el nacimiento de un milagro — la Zona. Enviamos tropas de inmediato. No regresaron. Entonces rodeamos la Zona con un operativo policial... Creo que fue lo correcto. Realmente no lo sé..."Aparte de una entrevista al profesor Wallace, ganador del premio Nobel
Etiquetas: Сталкер

Etiquetas: abstención, miguel olaya, pase la voz, reelección, referendo, umbrales, uribe cubed, viral

We created cars to fight for space to be in
We created work to waste our time
We created love, so one can be the victim
We all need, as a result, we all need love
But don't know what to do with it
What's the sense of a situation we can't fight
It's alright when you both want to fight
But when one of them doesn't want to fight
It's the end of love.
Etiquetas: 1980, ian curtis, love, Throbbing Gristle

Poincaré arrived at an exceptionally early hour of the morning, complaining at once about the behaviour of the mathematician Weierstrass, Sophia's old mentor, who had been one of the judges for the kinf of Sweden's recent mathematical prize. Poincaré had indeed been awarded the prize, but Weierstrass had seen fit to announce that there were possible errors in his—Poincare's—work that he, Weierstrass, had not been given some time to investigate. He had sent a letter submitting his annotated queries to the king of Sweden—as if such a personage would know what he was talking about. And he had made some statement about Poincaré being valued in future more for the negative than the positive aspects of his work.
Sophia soothed him, telling him she was on her way to see Weierstrass and would take the matter up with him. She pretended not to have heard anything about it, though she had actually written a teasing letter to her old teacher.
"I am sure the kind has had much of his royal sleep disturbed since your information arrived. Just think of how you have upset the royal mind hitherto so happily ignorant of mathematics. Take care you don't make him repent of his generosity..."
"And after all," she said to Jules [Poincaré], "after all you do have the prize and will have it forever."
Jules agreed, adding that his own name would shine when Weierstrass would be forgotten.
Every one of us will be forgotten, Sophia thought but did not say, because of the tender sensibilities of men—particularly of a young man—on this point.A. Munro, Too Much Happiness
Etiquetas: alice munro, forgotten, mathematics, memory, past, poincaré, Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, weierstrass
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