Re: Request for parody of Wm Shakesp. Sonnet 130 ("My Apples screen is smaller..."

[benco@soda.berkeley.edu (Ben Cottrell)]

In article <2rag1m$dli@meaddata.meaddata.com>,
John Townsend <johnt@meaddata.com> wrote:
>We just happen to have Scientific American online in Nexis.  I found the
>article, from the June 1989 issue, but unfortunately we don't have the
>"illustration" online which contains the full text of the sonnet that was
>generated.  However, here's the main article if you're interested.  Maybe
>someone can now find a hardcopy of this issue and followup with the whole
>sonnet:

Here it is...


	SONNET CXXX-b

My Apple's screen is nothing like the Sun;
The Cray is faster far on problems big:
If Apple pleasant be, th'Atari is more fun;
If wires be hairs, her circuits are a wig:
I have seen pixels dancing, red green blue,
But no such pixels see I on her tube;
And mainframes dance a logic far more true
Than in my Apple's tiny crystal cube.
I love to watch her print, yet well I know
That line printers hasten with more speed;
I grant I never saw a virtual process go,
My Apple, when it works, does in small steps proceed;
And yet, by heaven, I think my judgement sound
As any computation she has found.



Hope you enjoyed that...
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