if 1000 monkeys...
In case the monkeys (or monkey watchers) need to keep track of the time, here's a similarly overdetermined internet clock.
see automatic writing
Maybe it's possible to be too skeptical. The Surrealists freed automatic writing from fraudulent mysticism (in favor of Freudulant mysticism?), returning it to something more like the authentic traditions of the old riddles, or the Zen koan. That is to say, the jolt delivered to habitual ways of thinking may be more important than the "answer" to a riddle or the "source" of the writing.
The monkey quote could use some research. Here it's phrased as a defense of Creationism, given the unlikelyhood of the random occurrence, but I've also heard it used to suggest that eventually the "impossible" will happen, and not necessarily having anything to do with the origin of life. The recent New Yorker fiction issue used the typing monkeys as a cover motif. The ever-laughable NY Post showed its stuff by complaining in a capsule review that they couldn't understand the point of the illustration. How many thoughts will they have to think before one makes sense?
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- dave 12-28-2002 4:46 am
In case the monkeys (or monkey watchers) need to keep track of the time, here's a similarly overdetermined internet clock.
- tom moody 12-29-2002 9:32 pm [add a comment]
see automatic writing
- bill 12-30-2002 7:54 pm [add a comment]
Maybe it's possible to be too skeptical. The Surrealists freed automatic writing from fraudulent mysticism (in favor of Freudulant mysticism?), returning it to something more like the authentic traditions of the old riddles, or the Zen koan. That is to say, the jolt delivered to habitual ways of thinking may be more important than the "answer" to a riddle or the "source" of the writing.
The monkey quote could use some research. Here it's phrased as a defense of Creationism, given the unlikelyhood of the random occurrence, but I've also heard it used to suggest that eventually the "impossible" will happen, and not necessarily having anything to do with the origin of life. The recent New Yorker fiction issue used the typing monkeys as a cover motif. The ever-laughable NY Post showed its stuff by complaining in a capsule review that they couldn't understand the point of the illustration. How many thoughts will they have to think before one makes sense?
- alex 12-30-2002 8:26 pm [add a comment]