Re: VMs: Monkey authorship

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 23:07 22/09/2004 -0400, Tim Ackerson wrote:
> Well, this raises several questions:
> 1) How do we know the monkeys are typing randomly? What if they are 
> actually typing out a 'monkey' language?
> 2) How many of these monkeys are actually the literary equivalent of 
> William Shakespeare?
> 3) What if Shakespeare plagarized 'his' works from the monkeys in the 
> first place? (Imagine the implications of that one!)

Shakespeare:    To be, or not to be?
Bacon:  Tobie, or not Tobie?
Monkey: Barbary, or chimpanzee?

That is the question... :-) 


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