Ben Greiser

In a hazy room crowded with filthy monkeys, a particularly flea bitten one stares at the effluent of the typewriter to which it is chained: "OMNIA GALLIA DIVISI EST IN PARTES TRES ... ". In a screaming fit the monkey bashes its head repeatedly on the keyboard: "In Xanadu, did Kublai Khan ... ", "All in the golden afternoon full leisurely we glide; ... ", "That was when I saw ...".

"Ad infinitum into the hazy distance, nothing but screaming monkeys chained to clacketty typewriters, banging banging clacketty clicketty clack clack clack. How's a monkey supposed to write anything original under conditions like these?"

LANGUAGE GAP Descartes, being the perceptive fellow that he is, notices that some interactions are very explicit. He is able to guage the effectiveness of his communication by the result. The utterance "Beer" often has a predictable and favorable result, even when spoken to people who understand nothing else that he says. >>>