Pony Musk · 29 May 2001

So perhaps written language is a kind of Turing Tape, always being erased and rewritten, which makes the book a single state of the state machine. Perhaps we are all state machines and the tape of language is running through each of us, rewriting and editing the tapes left by others.

Or perhaps I am full of shit.

—Paul Ford stares down writer’s block, draws potential comic strips, and makes you laugh wicked hard.

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