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Ken Joye kjoye at adobe.com
Thu Jun 6 09:03:59 PDT 2002


At 10:23 PM 6/5/2002, Michael Rueger wrote:
>"Music is not in the piano" as "Knowledge is not in the computer"

Is this to say that poetry is not realized if it is read instead of
heard?  Can one only appreciate Shakespeare if his plays
are staged?

The experience is not in the computer, it is in the interchange
between the author of a program and the person executing
it (who can be one and the same).

Ken





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