Conversations With Lord Byron On Perversion, 163 Years After His Lordship's Death - Softcover

Prantera, Amanda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349100381 ISBN 13: 9780349100388

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

WHO DID YOU LOVE BEST Of ALL? There, she said softly to herself, let it chew on that. And pressing the entry tab, she flicked the switch and left the computer to its own devices. What a question! All he could truthfully say, to whoever it was who was interested and kept pestering him about it was that -he hadcertainly loved. Intensely And often. Its not an impossible idea - a computer program fed with every scrap of data concerning Lord Byron's life and work, even allowing for his moods and preferences 'Brainchild Harold', the Professor called it artificial intelligence The experiment is supervised by a pair of vaguely sceptical computer technicians, while the rather attractive Byron expert, Anna, tries to coax some long-sought facts out of the impeccably ordered, personalised memory bank And indeed 'His Lordship' does seem to respond well to flattery At times he can also be grumpy, quite contradictory, huffy, quaintly suggestive and definitely evasive But Anna perseveres because just suppose the program did reveal who Byron loved best of all - man or woman? Suppose she found out why he left England so suddenly in 1809? Suppose the computer wrote a new poem ? 'Clever, brilliant, fun' Daily Mail 'Sparkling written with an elegance that makes each sentence soft or hard, a pleasure whatever it deals with Seldom has my disbelief been so willingly suspended' Financial Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349100381
• ISBN 13: 9780349100388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176