Oracular spontaneity is rare these days, and heartfelt, inspired sloppiness underrated. The poets are pros now, like the software coders, and they function smoothly as nodes in the great network. Ginsberg was always a bug in the machine, though, and the chaos he caused rang alarms that brought repairmen. […] Silence … the one mistake …
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Some great comments on my previous post about poetry and code prompted more musings on why this matters to me. Ana María Correa also threw in some great thoughts on the subject and encouragement to keep compiling a list comparing poets to programming languages. Carol chimed in with one that made me laugh then think …
…is compactness. We had dinner with some new friends last night, one of whom bailed out at MA in his pursuit of English because the job prospects for Ph.D. seemed grim. Now he writes software. Confronted with a mirror into my own unique combination of interests, I started thinking about what lines of code and …
