[AccessD] Computer prose

Have  you got a URL for it Tina?

Tried google but too  much fluff.

Max

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris
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Sent: 24 September 2009 15:08
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Computer prose

Arthur, if you get Fermi's Last Theorem resolved, please let me know.  
My Dad's been working on that one, off and on, for about 40 years, now, 
I think.
T

Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Shamil, Russian novelists have nothing to apologize for. IMO they rank
among
> the greatest ever born.
> The only real issue in Russian lit (I didn't actually take a course from
> Nabokov when he taught at Cornell, but my then-girlfriend did, and she
gave
> me all her notes to read. Nabokov and I see Russian novels from completely
> opposite perspectives. That's cool. I like opposing views, they stimulate
> discussion! Nabokov preferred Tolstoy, I preferred Dostoevsky. We both
loved
> Gogol, a commonality among major other differences. Nabokov believed that
> every single detail within a scene was crucial. My GF once faced an exam
> from him, containing a single question, which I cannot quote, but it went
> approximately like this: when Count Vronski said xxx, what colour were the
> walls in the room? Whereas my exam question might have been, was
Raskalnikov
> crazy, and if so why, and if not why not? Or going further back to Gogol,
> was it crazy or mere opportunism to sell dead souls? A strange
perspective:
> Russia as the birth of capitalist oppression. LOL.
>
> Anyway, Shamil, I would be most interested in your take on "A Martian
Sends
> a Postcard Home." I deem it a truly great work, and I made it through
> without reference to the notes, although I admit that it took me a couple
of
> days to work it out.
>
> Meanwhile, I'm back to trying to resolve Fermi's Last Theorem. It's tough!
>
> A.
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Shamil Salakhetdinov <
> shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru> wrote:
>
>   
>> 2B || !2B ?
>>
>> --
>> Shamil
>>
>> P.S. FYI: In Russia eternal questions are: "Who is guilty?" and "What to
>> do?" with "Who is guilty?" one taking 99% of the time to "chat about" for
>> ages now...
>>
>>
>>     
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