were these creatures fools?

"Were These Creatures Fools?" July 14, 2022 (#195)

title from The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981)

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver (1968)

penultimate line from "Souls on Ice" by Mark Doty (2000)

last line from "Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died" by Tom Wolfe (1996)

Were These Creatures Fools?

At the show itself, they raised the placard bearing their

anything down with the warden or parole board they could

after his discovery of the basic scheme for memory management

seemed always to be listening to distant music, or silent voices, or to be

several items of information. The most important of these is the address of

Playboy?---not a chance. I have long wanted to file suit in Federal Court for

hundreds of basic instructions to be encoded in thousands of microinstructions

challenged to match its practice to its preachments. And this is why those

defects in its design crop up and get repaired. As the years go by, the

dovetailing of causes and issues is destined to bring to fruition

the way in which these short lines slow the poem down;

the savings in time and money were breathtaking.

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Senecio by Paul Klee (1922)

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