Alphabet City

Microprocessors use the binary alphabet of 0 and 1. Alphaville (1965) is the name of a sci fi flick by Godard starring Akim Tamiroff, but it's also alphabet city.You could not produce a binary version of it or The Brothers K. Here is where CP Snow's "Two Cultures" come to a dead end. If you place a monkey in front of a computer for eternity he will at some point produce "The Grand Inquisitor" poem, but you'd have to teach it to type. Artificial intelligence is not merely some passing fad but it's also not fungible. It flags when confronted with the enigma of the Mona Lisa's smile.

read "Removing Your Unconscious" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and listen to "Freeway of Love" by Aretha Franklin