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The New Poem-Making Machinery | The New Yorker

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Save this story Save this story I met Dan Selsam when we were toddlers. I liked letters. He liked numbers. I liked telling jokes. He liked solving math problems. We both liked the show “ThunderCats.” Years passed. I became a comedy writer. Dan became a computer scientist. But, even though our lives took different turns, we remained friends. Every so often, I’d e-mail Dan a story I had written. Dan, in turn, would e-mail me an update on his research. I did not understand Dan’s e-mails, but, since we were friends, I would write back encouraging responses like “Wow, that’s so cool, congratulation

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