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In this dawning digital age it is more and more apparent that "reality" is dependent on perception.
Perception, however, can be and is manipulated, dictated by medium: M.M. wasn't as far off as one might originally have thought.
Data must be formatted for recognition by a "client".------------------------------------------>
L'AMOUR À LA ROBOTE Un homme écrit à la machine une lettre d'amour et la machine répond à l'homme et à la main et à la place de la destinataire Elle est tellement perfectionnée la machine la machine à laver les chèques et les lettres d'amour Et l'homme confortablement installé dans sa machine à habiter lit à la machine à lire la réponse de la machine à écrire Et dans sa machine à rêver avec sa machine à calculer il achète une machine à faire l'amour Et dans sa machine à réaliser les rêves il fait l'amour à la machine à écrire à la machine à faire l'amour Et la machine le trompe avec un machin un machin à mourir de rire. -Jacques Prévert, Parisian poet of the 1930's-40's.
ROBOT LOVE
A man is typing a love letter and
the machine answers, with the hand and
the voice of the intended
She is so perfect, this machine
this washer of checks and letters of love
And this man comfortably inside his living
machine reads to the reading machine the response
of the writing machine
And inside his dream machine with his calculating bean
he buys a love-making machine
And in his dream-come-true machine he makes love
to the machine to write to the machine to make love
and the machine then cheats him with another machine:
a machine to die of laughter.
-translation by banthony.
Some more than others and some better than others.
Eshew Obfuscation