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- From: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:00:01 GMT
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- behrens@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eric Behrens) writes:
- : Maybe it could do e e cummings, but a novel... :╤)
- 1) e e cummings did write a novel (The Enormous Room),
- based on his prisoner of war experiences.
- 2) he was one of the most `poetic' of poets,
- using the lateral, more analogue than digital,
- possibilities of English to the limit.
- It is not hard to get a computer to produce
- correct English syntax (though the _content_ is
- liable to seem odd); it is very hard to get
- it to break the rules in a way that communicates
- emotional force to the reader.
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- A computer will write like Ms Susanne a long while before one
- writes like e e cummings.
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