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The eyes in your radio
Finally I got more than five hours of sleep, so I had a boatload of dreams, most of which I cannot remember past an image or two. Ghosts, demons, a signed letter from Death, a garden made of rice raked into the maria and highlands of the moon. The very last one involved an AI named Christopher: I realized just as I started to wake up that he must be Turing's Morcom. What does that mean, awake? Was he a programmed re-creation? A ghost in the machine? An accidentally evolved consciousness? (You've made some changes since the virus caught you sleeping.) Between this and rakshasa Kipling and the dybbuk of John Adams—who I have never dreamed about, but for eight years I've wanted him to haunt this administration—I'm going to have to learn how to write historical fiction. Tell me it's not slash if the participants are historical and one of them is a thought experiment.
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Rice raked into the maria and highlands, that's particularly striking, to me.
Although the AI is striking as well, of course. On the subject of Turing, did you ever read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon? Turing was a minor character therein.
Tell me it's not slash if the participants are historical and one of them is a thought experiment.
Will you write it if we tell you so? ;-)
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Thank you. My dreams have a much better visual sensibility than my waking life.
On the subject of Turing, did you ever read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon? Turing was a minor character therein.
Yes. I like best its World War II chapters, not least because some of them contain Alan Turing. Have you read or seen Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code (1986)?
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Most welcome.
My dreams have a much better visual sensibility than my waking life.
Interesting.
Have you read or seen Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code (1986)?
No, I've not. Should I? (And which option would you recommend?)
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It's a play; I've never seen it, although I know there was a television adaptation in 1996. Certainly I recommend reading it. It's not a biography of Alan Turing so much as an impressionist sketch of him, and I like it very much. Derek Jacobi originated the role.