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I knew words were like chains, they held me back... the act of
description taints the description.
-- John Fowles
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The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the wate
he poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Likewise." Added the interviewer and said: "Your answers were also very .
.. unusual." "Although this description cannot testify on their quality, I take it as a compliment....
The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the resulting dish.
-- John Calki...
Sorry, but I am not allowed to give more detail. I will repeat the long description of your location.
Manually operated analog scribing device (description of chalk)
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
It might be worth reflecting that this group was originally created back in September of 1987 and has exchanged over 1200 messages.
The original announcement for the group called for an all inclusive discussion ranging from the writings of Gibson and Vinge and movies like Bladerunner to real world things like Brands' description of the work being done at the MIT Media Lab....
Homer: I never passed Remedial Science 1A. Marge: And you're a nuclear technician?
-- But his job description clearly specified an illiterate, "The Fro...