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...graphs which make it difficult to digest." A five-volume History of Bitic Literature is conveniently boiled down to prefaces from the first and second editions. They trace the evolution of the computer from a programmed and hence "unthinking" machine into a dazzling array of autonomous intelligences, producing unbidden works of literature, "bitic texts which in varying degrees are unintelligible to humans...
...LIES in peaceful quiet sleep, A vision came unbidden to his head: He saw the birds that fly, the beasts that creep, He saw the teeming living and the dead. Surveying all, he looked first to the north And at the pole, he caught sight of a gleam; A Cadillac in chrome was riding forth, Pulled by a twelve-man transition team. "What can this mean?" asks Bok of his stern guide, Who answers thus in Slavic-sounding voice: "This year a new man takes the Yuletide ride, Delivering gifts to rich and poor--rejoice!" Bok looks puzzled, turns...
...candidates, the press and all those other interlopers, Shakespeare has a line for them too: "Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone." -Hays Gorey
...when then Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag asked that the artist do his portrait. In 1968 Glazunov finished a portrait of India's Indira Gandhi that the lady greatly admired. Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev reportedly felt much the same way about a portrait of himself that Glazunov, unbidden, executed for Brezhnev's 70th birthday last year...
There is nothing startling or even wayward in his work. Nothing seems to bubble up unbidden out of his unconscious, out of those memories he must surely share with all actors, of bad ideas tried out in rehearsal and found embarrassing, of nights when he must have felt he was going to boil in his own flop sweat. It was those memories-a performer's kinship acknowledged-that informed Olivier's work and, finally, humanized and redeemed his Archie. The recognition of self in the role of Archie and the willingness to admit it are beyond Lemmon...