“It has been argued that a monkey banging away randomly at a typewriter long enough would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Of course, it’s entirely possible that he would first come up with Pierre Boulle’s 1963 pulp classic Planet of the Apes, and perhaps pause to scratch his forehead over this monologue by an interstellar human explorer…”
Jennifer Schuessler: Aping His Inferiors via Lady Journos!
Whoa. This opening just fucked my head. Because: It’s much more likely an assortment of monkeys banging on an assortment of typewriters would end up writing variations on the monkeys banging on typewriters thought experiment (perhaps several times) than they would end up writing anything by Shakespeare. Right?
