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- From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: ITALIAN RESEARCHER SEES LIGHT (Was Re: INFO: Sega's 3D Glasses)
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 17:49:40 CET
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- In <9212310857.AA03131@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Dec 31, I wrote:
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- > > Gosh, I don't know about real research or real systems in this area,
- > > but there was a novel written some years ago on the subject.... New
- > > Romancer or something like that? By William Burroughs, right? ;-)
- >
- > Neuromancer, William Gibson
- >
- > [MODERATOR: I think he was making a joke, Diego. -- Bob Jacobson]
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- Poor baby (me)! Ok: I've been... overzealous (sp?) and didn't see the
- smiley. The problem is that English is not my first language, so it
- happens that I don't read the postings with enough "light mind" to get
- everything they put thru this damned narrow bandwidth. We could start
- a thread on how the text-only computer-mediated communications
- change/force the way people express themselves... In Italy we call
- this "climbing the mirrors"... :-)
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- Sorry!
- Diego
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- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: Can you explain that metaphor, "Climbing the
- mirrors"? It might have some relevance, more broadly. Seriously.
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- [PS. In English, it's PLEASE REPLY TO ME: :-) -- Bob Jacobson]
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