Tuesday 1 March 2011

Your Bard

Young Keith is getting a little fed up with people's snarky remarks about his 16th Century Poetry Generator. He says he knows it's not exactly solid-state hi-technology, and it does have a lot of moving parts. But the electro-mechanical nature of the device means it generates poetry with just that right level of human fallibility, rather than the cold correctness of a computer.
And when it breaks down, that's fine. He can fix it. He's bought himself a sonnet screwdriver.

1 comment :

  1. "cold correctness of a computer" - are you sure, haven't you ever used Microsoft software?

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