Re: VMs: One for larry roux

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

At 01:00 09/12/2003 +0000, Jeff wrote:
> The dots may or may not delimit words. THATS HOW HARD THIS STUFF IS!

IMO, if you think *that* is hard, you've barely scratched the surface of 
the VMs. :-(

Imagine an object surrounded by legend - or by deception - or by haziness...
Imagine a manuscript whose pictures refer to nothing, or to things you 
don't recognise...
Imagine a document where experts can't even agree what *century* it's from...
Imagine a text whose stats tell you everything about what it does but 
nothing about what it is...
Imagine a language which has structure but no dictionary...
Imagine an alphabet whose iconography point in every direction but its 
source...

In short, try hard to imagine a Rubik's cube as redesigned by M.C.Escher... 
and you're beginning to grasp what the VMs is... (but only just).

Really, if you were even slightly close to an answer, you wouldn't be 
asking about dots. :-(((

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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