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Just a very interesting and artistic way to present a poem by science fiction author William Gibson. Hopefully some of you find this as interesting as I.
Agrippa is a 300 line poem written by William Gibson to depict the impermanence of memory. The poem is about his youth and his father with an over arching theme of things fading away or deteriorating, like the memories. The printed copies were treated with photosensitive chemicals to decay the printing material rapidly. The digital copies of the poem were made to encrypt their floppy disks after a single reading to be lost forever. Again, impermanence.
Here is the poem from that floppy disk:
Read more about Agrippa/William Gibson here:
en.wikipedia.org
Agrippa is a 300 line poem written by William Gibson to depict the impermanence of memory. The poem is about his youth and his father with an over arching theme of things fading away or deteriorating, like the memories. The printed copies were treated with photosensitive chemicals to decay the printing material rapidly. The digital copies of the poem were made to encrypt their floppy disks after a single reading to be lost forever. Again, impermanence.
Here is the poem from that floppy disk:
Read more about Agrippa/William Gibson here:
