Blake Butler—
@ Fury.com, a series of conversations between random AOL IM users and a psychoanalyst program named ELIZA, which operates by asking questions based on the previously entered text:
| fiftyeight: Hello, a/s/l |
| AOLiza: hi. what seems to be your problem? |
| fiftyeight: just looking for random people to talk to |
| AOLiza: tell me more about that. |
| fiftyeight: I like to talk to random people from all around it is fun. But enough about me, lets talk about you. |
| AOLiza: tell me more about that. |
| fiftyeight: Lets talk about you… where do you hail from? |
| AOLiza: you’re not really talking about me — are you? |
| fiftyeight: Yes, I am. |
| AOLiza: please go on. |
| fiftyeight: well in order to talk about you tell me about yourself |
| AOLiza: suppose i did tell you — what would that mean? |
| fiftyeight: that would mean that this was a conversation |
| AOLiza: that is interesting. please continue. |
| fiftyeight: conversations are fun |
| AOLiza: what if they were not fun? |
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