On Monday 06 February 2006 11:56 am, boblq wrote:
> The horrible thing is that after you look at this stuff long enough it
> starts to make a weird sort of sense. That is when you know that
> your brain is really being messed up badly by even trying to work
> with code that looks like this. God only knows what the next code
> I write for myself will look like.
>
> Sigh,
>
> BobLQ
Mumble, talking to myself in public again, hack, cough, sputter ...
One creative result has come of this. There is a need for
some variation on the theme of "copyright." One needs a
right of dissociation, a right to disavow authorship. Not sure
what to call that right. What is the opposite to paternity? A
word for not being a parent, not being an author or owner
of some liability. "minusright?"
I am reminded of a comment I once read. An elder author
was asked by a young man to read his first novel. After a
short while the young man asked him what he thought
whereupon the old man said,
"You should put this novel in the locked drawer of
a desk. Then burn the desk. Then burn down the
house that the desk is in. Then leave town in the
dark of night. Don't ever come back. I will pretend
it never happened."
So it goes,
BobLQ "I did it for the money"
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