Re: VMs: RuggWatch

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  > [Dennis:] It is not clear what Serafini was doing - and he
  > obviously didn't want it to be.
  
Well, I understand what you mean ... but Serafini is an artist, and
what he was doing was clearly Art. The "hoax" or "non-hoax"
classification is not very meaningful (or relevant) in that world...

(It reminds me: wasnt't there a recent art exhibit in London, where
two modern artists showed a set of very expensive original prints by
Goya --- that they had "enhanced" by adding moustaches and eyeglasses,
as a kid might do to a magazine cover?)

  > An extraterrestrial might use Rugg's method to conclude that an
  > English text is a hoax. Might he then sell it to his leader for
  > some rare element on his home planet? :-)
  
Dunno, but he would probably get an article published in the
Scientific Martian. 8-)

All the best,

--stolfi
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