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 “Shakespeare is known in our house as the gentleman who pays the rent.”<br>
 :—Judy Dench}}
-SBF’s insightful<ref>Insightful in that they offer insight into the surprising limitations of this supposedly outstanding intellect.</ref> musings on the bard call to mind the difference between the [[data modernists]] and the rest of us: the difference between regarding “discourse” as a bilateral, interactive thing, and as ''[[symbol processing]]'': where a machine consumes a bunch of symbols and executes a series of preset commands, without ''learning'' anything and without ''changing'' the nature of the text.
+Shakespeare is quite “a piece of work”, as the bard put it.<ref>''Hamlet'', II, ii.</ref>
+SBF’s musings on  Shakespeare point up a  difference between “discourse” as a bilateral, interactive thing, and as ''[[symbol processing]]'': where a machine consumes a bunch of symbols and executes a series of preset commands, without ''learning'' anything and without ''changing'' the nature of the text. You might define “[[data modernism]]” as a philosophy which sees no such difference. Out of ignorance and not hostility.
+A good friend is writing a novel, struggling with that temptation all amateur novelists have to describe every surface, articulate every nuance, plant unequivocally every idea fully shaped into the reader’s head. He’s adopted the present continuous, a view perfect for the symbol processing machine, that allows no time for pause, or construction
 ====There is no machine for judging poetry====