Me: Ooh! New Jarman? Me: Ooh! New Jarman from another universe via dream?
Later she will be seen kneeling near the tide-line, rubbing a piece of white perforated paper over the silent slither of the shingle. It's a Zygalski sheet—is the joke that the telltale letters which repeated in the indicator transmitted before the body of the message were called females? A second-order hint of the original imitation game, in which the trick was to confuse the difference, not between machine and human, but woman and man? It crumbles in her hands like lace, she lets it wing out toward the water like a cloud of cabbage whites.
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Me: Ooh! New Jarman from another universe via dream?
Later she will be seen kneeling near the tide-line, rubbing a piece of white perforated paper over the silent slither of the shingle. It's a Zygalski sheet—is the joke that the telltale letters which repeated in the indicator transmitted before the body of the message were called females? A second-order hint of the original imitation game, in which the trick was to confuse the difference, not between machine and human, but woman and man? It crumbles in her hands like lace, she lets it wing out toward the water like a cloud of cabbage whites.
It also reminds me of Geoffrey Tandy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Tandy)