[ExI] don't do it!

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri May 14 18:21:48 UTC 2010


On 5/14/2010 12:30 PM, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> Even if one of them produced it, how would you find it
> amongst the infinite amount of output?  The monkeys know not
> what they made.  (And you'd have many more near-misses,
> being a few characters to a few scenes off, than actual exact
> copies.)

My story "Infinite Monkey" has the following monkey-generated passage:

<To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the 
mind to suffer the springs und slartybartfast bitter mof ckaor kdmwic 
r7$nd. Pdustl lfQDNHP( xkcjkduro>

Damien Broderick
[Oh well, I thought it was funny...]



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