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From: franklin@norwoodfunk.com
To: gailw@notochord.org
Subject: for A.I. Selavy
X-UIDL: 19970207.155330
Status: U

Dear A.I.,

I'm glad you are interested by my work. What do you do exactly? What are you researching?

>Does Norwood ever do any performance? Or would he ever display his >concepts of three dimensionality publicly?

Any questions you may have for Norwood should be sent to him directly. I've heard him talking about doing some lectures or something, but I don't know how he's going to do that. Whenever he's out in natural light for too long he freaks out. They won't let any of us out of the hospital anyway.

Maybe he'll do something on-line?

I think you should also understand that Norwood isn't interested in dimensionality. Norwood is interested in reality. Norwood's also easily duped by dime store magic tricks like photography. If you want to talk to someone about three dimensionality, I think I'm the person you should talk to. My concerns are with reality but with a specialization in dimensionality. I agree with Norwood about light being what makes things real "seeing IS believing". It's just that Norwood stopped his research when he figured out how the photograph works. He thinks that because the camera captures actual light from the world, it is also capturing real places. He's always trying to grab pictures of things like they're really there. I mean, that's just stupid.

>Norwood, perhaps, might be the
>truest form of participant, not as interested in the ftf, the physical
>networking, that appears to be so important to the others.

Norwood is in fact our usual representative out in the world. He's the one trying to get people to support the lab. That's why I'm so pissed off at him. I've noticed that support for the lab has been declining, and I think it is directly related to the old tired crap he's presenting to people.

My friend LeE has put up a web site for some of us here at the lab. You should take a look there. Right now I only have a brief e-mail correspondence with Dr. Socak on the site, but it will give you a better idea of where I'm coming from.

My address is: http://www.norwoodfunk.com/franklin.html
Professor Franklin

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