The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0951 Friday, 20 May 2005
[1] From: Edmund Taft <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:36:35 -0400
Subj: Shakespeare's Mythical Monkey Authors
[2] From: James Doyle <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:41:04 +0100
Subj: Shakespeare's Mythical Monkey Authors
[3] From: Bill Davis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:13:01 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 16.0927 Shakespeare's Mythical Monkey Authors
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From: Edmund Taft <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:36:35 -0400
Subject: Shakespeare's Mythical Monkey Authors
Dear All:
The failure of the monkeys to replicate any more than 24 lines out of
Shakespeare's works is proof of the Argument from Intelligent Design.
Chance did not create the universe; it can't even recreate Shakespeare!
Now it's obvious to clear-thinking men and women that Darwinism is a
fatally flawed theory. The religious fundamentalists were right all
along! Who woulda thunk it!
Ed Taft
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From: James Doyle <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:41:04 +0100
Subject: Shakespeare's Mythical Monkey Authors
Wake me up when they type:
Love's Labour's Won. Act One. Scene One.
James Doyle
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From: Bill Davis <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:13:01 -0400
Subject: 16.0927 Shakespeare's Mythical Monkey Authors
Comment: Re: SHK 16.0927 Shakespeare's Mythical Monkey Authors
Bill Lloyd writes:
"Stylometric analysis has shown that, of the 23 words from Timon of
Athens produced by the cyber-monkeys, only 14 are by Shakespeare and the
other 9 are by Thomas Middleton..."
This initial analysis was further developed when the statisticians
realized a flaw in the algorithms that did not allow for one key
variable with the cyber-monkeys throughout the infinite eons of time:
Evolution. Thus, of the 23 words matching Timon of Athens, 9 were by
Thomas Middleton, 10 were by Shakespeare in the original text, and the
remaining 4 represented Shakespeare's revision of the work.
Bill Davis
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