The fall are the pillars that raised me

[sovay]

For the yahrzeit of Alan Turing, a ghost poem I had not read before: Tobias Wray, "Turing Tested." It comes from the author's collection No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man (2021), which adapts its title from one of its subject's letters. No doubt he did. It is seventy years now since he became the ghost in everyone's machines, the apple-core fragment stuck in the teeth of history. We haven't become any better at imitation games, but I'd love to have seen Jarman convince me I was talking to the true thing.

Comments

[aurumcalendula]

I hadn't read that one before either - thank you for mentioning it!

[sovay]

I hadn't read that one before either - thank you for mentioning it!

You're welcome! I plan to look up the book it comes from.