From: jhmau (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 20:34:13 GMT
On 10 Nov 02 6:41 PM Erin enoonan @ kent.edu writes:
> Okay i do have a passage that i want to hear other people's
> interpretation. If this passage is too straightforward I can
> expand my specific question concerning it.
> But since its supposed to be just passage interpretation
> I will leave it alone for now.
>
> p.229
> "At this moment, asleep, "Lila" doesn't exist anymore then a
> program exists when a computer is switched off. The intelligence
> of her cells had switched Lila off for the night, exactly
> the way a hardware switch turns off a computer program."
>
Hi Erin and All,
I verymuch would like to have a hardware switch like a computer has to turn
off my program while asleep! I think the Author was expressing a universal
want in the character
"Lila." I also feel that I run many programs at once, and sleep has many
meanings. The Author by his analogy was trying to kick-start my attention
since I don't have a hardware switch.
Balance (Thanks again! Maggie) that allows randomness to function, is a
better switch than off/on. Sleep comes as a 'valued new pattern.' (I
apologize for the plagarism, but I so admire your formulation, Maggie.)
joe
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