Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 11:25:44 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: into the same river...
To signify my return to the editorial chair here in Leyton, London E10
(where roses are blooming though the days are sparing of light) I send
along evidence of imaginative play where it might least be expected. I
also make bold to suggest a possible addition to the humanities computing
curriculum.
To wit, the following message, in response to an attempt to reach a page
no longer maintained by "a worldwide network of meditation centers" known
as Shambhala, at
<http://www.shambhala.org/centers/04gampoabbey/gampo.html>,
gets my nomination for the gentlest, most peaceful error message ever
delivered by a computer:
"You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here."
Other nominations eagerly awaited.
I wonder -- would Heraclitus be pleased? Should we include his fragmentary
writings in courses that deal with the Web?
Yours, with a Happy (premillennial) New Year's greeting, and apologies for
so many delightful days spent otherwise than attending to Humanist,
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
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maui gratia
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