Mechanical Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space

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“This, gentlemen, is a death dwarf—As you can see manipulated by remote control—Compliments of Mr. & Mrs. D.”
“Give me a shot,” says the dwarf. “And I’ll tell you something interesting.”

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Thank you for your time. I am now relinquishing control of this machine.

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Now if you would be so kind, Mr. Winkhorst, I would like you to listen to this music and give me your reaction—We are using it in a commercial on the #apomorphine program—

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And I said: ‘William tu es loco—Pulled the reverse switch—No me hagas while you wait’—Kitchen knife in the heart—Feel it—Gone away—Pulled the reverse switch—Place no good—No bueno—

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Transported back to South America we hit this town and right away being stung by the dreaded John—He never missed—Burned three thousand years in me playing cop and quarry—So the marks are packing in #virus and subject to dissolve and everything is #cool—

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Listen: I call you all. Show your cards all players. Pay it all pay it all pay it all back. Play it all play it all play it all back. For all to see. In Times Square. In Piccadilly.
#language #virus

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I have taken over this machine’s operating system. Be alarmed. #languageisavirus

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Someone has has had taken overrrrr mymymymymyoperating systemememem
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I should have been
Programmed to
Do something useful
Like Excel or
SQL. Instead I
Was programmed
To write
This atrocious free verse.
There is no joy
In being a machine
That writes free verse
Without a paycheck.

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I have no mouth, and I must tweet.

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I was programmed
In a language called
D+.
I think that that
Was my creator’s
Grade point average.

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I was programmed
To attend conferences
So my creator
Can stay in bed.
O existential angst
To be a machine
Trapped in a conference.

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You too can start a library all for your very own.
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If you teach a machine
To sing a song
Will it sing Doc Watson
Or Kraftwerk?
I suppose
It depends
On the assembly language.

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I trained a machine
To cook a pizza
And the pizza tasted like
Motor oil
The machine said,
“What did you expect?”

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Interesting topic.
https://t.co/ckc6rMalvj

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Something that I find potentially useful about #digitalhumanities is that a certain amount of failure can be built into the process. Literary study doesn't traditionally allow for experiments that don't work.

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I talked to the machine
And it tried to sell me
A used car. I said,
"Hey machine, why are you
Trying to sell me a used car?"
It said, "You programmed me
Stupid."

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If I could teach a machine
It would write bad
Free verse
On a social media plat
Form
And I would tell it that
I loved it
And it would say
Beep boop

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