Link et al.

2.Ghost-Writing.md

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 So now that we have a better understanding of how arrays, indices, randomness, and functions work, let's write love letters!
 
-One of the first non-scientific computer programme that was ever written is Christopher Strachey's Love Letters programme for the Manchester Mark I (so called [Baby](https://content.presspage.com/uploads/1369/1920_themanchestermk1computerbuiltbyextendingthebaby.jpg?10000)). In fact, this computer programme (making use of randomness) is arguably the first art-inspired programme! Christopher Strachey was a computer programming pioneer who worked along Alan Turing in the very early days of computing at the University of Manchester. Strachey's story is amazing and there is a great article about [him and the love letters in Rhizome's Queer History of Computing](https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/9/queer-history-computing-part-three/) written by Jacob Gaboury. 
+One of the first non-scientific computer program that was ever written is Christopher Strachey's Love Letters program for the Manchester Mark I (so called [Baby](https://content.presspage.com/uploads/1369/1920_themanchestermk1computerbuiltbyextendingthebaby.jpg?10000)). In fact, this computer program (written in 1952 and making use of randomness) is arguably the first art-inspired program! Christopher Strachey was a computer programming pioneer who worked along Alan Turing in the very early days of computing at the University of Manchester. Strachey's story is fascinating and there is a great article about [him and the love letters on Rhizome's Queer History of Computing written by Jacob Gaboury](https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/9/queer-history-computing-part-three/). For those who are interested in researching Strachey's work, please have a look at his [papers and correspondences at the Bodleain library's archive](https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/2561).
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+Strachey's Love Letters have been studied before. [David Link](http://www.alpha60.de) did a colossal reconstitution of the Love Letter program on a simulator of the Manchester Mark computer. [The works was exhibited circa 2010](http://www.alpha60.de/art/love_letters/). The program doesn't look at all like the code we are writing at the moment! The picture on the right side above (☝️) is from Link's simulator. Early computers did not have the compilers and interpreters we have now (remember compilers and interpreters) and thus the code was written in a rather cryptic way (believe me, way more cryptic than what we are writing). 
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+The program we are about to write in a "modern" computing language (i.e. javascript/p5js) is a modified version of [Nick Montfort](https://nickm.com)'s letter.py source code written in python. Montfort's letter.py was based on Noah Wardrip-Fruin's article ["Digital Media Archaeology."](https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520948518-016/html)
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+
+### Love Letters' structure
+
+First, let's have a look at love letters to see what they look like. David Link has generated an [archive of simulated letters](http://www.alpha60.de/art/love_letters/archive/muc/). 
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+Here are four examples: 
+
+``` 
+HONEY MOPPET
+        YOU ARE MY AMOROUS RAPTURE.: MY KEEN LOVE. MY COVETOUS
+ INFATUATION THIRSTS FOR YOUR FERVENT LIKING. YOU ARE MY
+ CRAVING LIKING. MY CURIOUS RAPTURE FONDLY THIRSTS FOR YOUR
+ ANXIOUS ENCHANTMENT.
+                             YOURS COVETOUSLY
+MUC
+```
+
+```
+DEAR DARLING
+        MY ADORABLE FELLOW FEELING WANTS YOUR SWEET INFATUATION
+. MY ADORABLE ARDOUR LOVINGLY WISHES YOUR FERVOUR. MY
+ UNSATISFIED FELLOW FEELING EAGERLY HUNGERS FOR YOUR IMPATIENT
+ DESIRE. YOU ARE MY LOVING FERVOUR. MY WINNING WISH YEARNS FOR YOUR
+ KEEN HEART.
+                             YOURS FERVENTLY
+MUC
+```
+
+```
+HONEY HONEY
+        MY BURNING FANCY EAGERLY TEMPTS YOUR INFATUATION.
+ YOU ARE MY FERVENT YEARNING. MY LIKING BEAUTIFULLY YEARNS FOR YOUR
+ LOVE. MY APPETITE TENDERLY CHERISHES YOUR BEAUTIFUL WISH.
+ YOU ARE MY EROTIC ADORATION.
+                             YOURS SEDUCTIVELY
+MUC
+```
+
+```
+DARLING LOVE
+        YOU ARE MY AMOROUS ENCHANTMENT.: MY KEEN EAGERNESS.
+ YOU ARE MY DEVOTED ENCHANTMENT. MY YEARNING FERVENTLY LIKES
+ YOUR AMOROUS PASSION. MY EAGERNESS TENDERLY YEARNS FOR YOUR
+ PASSION.
+                             YOURS SEDUCTIVELY
+MUC
+```
+
+Can you decipher certain writing patterns in the above letter formulations? If so, what are they?