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I learned yesterday
(I must be behind the times, or perhaps
it's only a false rumor, one of those pieces
of spiteful gossip that are circulated between
sink and latrine at the hour when meals that
have been ingurgitated one more time are
thrown in the slop buckets),
I learned yesterday
one of the most sensational of those official
practices of American public schools
which no doubt account for the fact that this
country believes itself to be in the vanguard
of progress.
It seems that, among the examinations or tests
required of a child entering public school for
the first time, there is the so-called seminal
fluid or sperm test,
which consists of asking this newly entering
child for a small amount of his sperm so it
can be placed in a jar
and kept ready for any attempts at artificial
insemination that might later take place.
For Americans are finding more and more
that they lack muscle and children,
that is, not workers
but soldiers,
and they want at all costs and by every possible
means to make and manufacture soldiers
with a view to all the planetary wars which might
later take place,
and which would be intended to demonstrate by
the overwhelming virtues of force
the superiority of American products,
and the fruits of American sweat in all fields of
activity and of the superiority of the possible
dynamism of force.
Because one must produce,
one must by all possible means of activity replace
nature wherever it can be replaced,
one must find a major field of action for human inertia,
the worker must have something to keep him busy,
new fields of activity must be created,
in which we shall see at last the reign of all the fake
manufactured products,
of all the vile synthetic substitutes
in which beautiful real nature has no part,
and must give way finally and shamefully before
all the victorious substitute products
in which the sperm of all the artificial insemination
factories
will make a miracle
in order to produce armies and battleships.
No more fruit, no more trees, no more vegetables,
no more plants pharmaceutical or otherwise and
consequently no more food,
but synthetic products to satiety,
amid the fumes,
amid the special humors of the atmosphere, on the
particular axes of atmospheres wrenched violently
and synthetically from the resistances of a nature
which has known nothing of war except fear.
And war is wonderful, isn't it?
For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been
preparing for and are preparing for this way step
by step.
In order to defend this senseless manufacture from
all competition that could not fail to arise on all
sides,
one must have soldiers, armies, airplanes, battleships,
hence this sperm
which it seems the governments of America have had
the effrontery to think of.
For we have more than one enemy
lying in wait for us, my son,
we, the born capitalists,
and among these enemies
Stalin's Russia
which also doesn't lack armed men.
All this is very well,
but I didn't know the Americans were such a warlike
people.
In order to fight one must get shot at
and although I have seen many Americans at war
they always had huge armies of tanks, airplanes,
battleships
that served as their shield.
I have seen machines fighting a lot
but only infinitely far
behind
them have I seen the men who directed them.
Rather than a people who feed their horses, cattle,
and mules the last tons of real morphine they have
left and replace it with substitutes made of smoke,
I prefer the people who eat of the bare earth the delirium
from which they were born
I mean the Tarahumara
eating peyote off the ground
while they are born,
and who kill the sun to establish the kingdom of black
night,
and who smash the cross so that the spaces of space can
never again meet and cross.
And so now you are going to hear the dance of the T U T U G U R I.
Antonin Artaud (1947)
Trans. by Helen Weaver
Also:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/artaud.html
This variable is then used in various lines of code, holding values given it by variable assignments along the way. In the course of its life, a variable can hold any number of variables and be used in any number of different ways. This flexibility is built on the precept we just learned: a variable is really just a block of bits, and those bits can hold whatever data the program needs to remember. They can hold enough data to remember an integer from as low as -2,147,483,647 up to 2,147,483,647 (one less than plus or minus 2^31). They can remember one character of writing. They can keep a decimal number with a huge amount of precision and a giant range. They can hold a time accurate to the second in a range of centuries. A few bits is not to be scoffed at.
Posted by: Emma on January 18, 2004 11:54 PMWhen compared to the Stack, the Heap is a simple thing to understand. All the memory that's left over is "in the Heap" (excepting some special cases and some reserve). There is little structure, but in return for this freedom of movement you must create and destroy any boundaries you need. And it is always possible that the heap might simply not have enough space for you.
Posted by: Gabriel on January 18, 2004 11:55 PMThis is another function provided for dealing with the heap. After you've created some space in the Heap, it's yours until you let go of it. When your program is done using it, you have to explicitly tell the computer that you don't need it anymore or the computer will save it for your future use (or until your program quits, when it knows you won't be needing the memory anymore). The call to simply tells the computer that you had this space, but you're done and the memory can be freed for use by something else later on.
Posted by: Edward on January 18, 2004 11:56 PMNote first that favoriteNumbers type changed. Instead of our familiar int, we're now using int*. The asterisk here is an operator, which is often called the "star operator". You will remember that we also use an asterisk as a sign for multiplication. The positioning of the asterisk changes its meaning. This operator effectively means "this is a pointer". Here it says that favoriteNumber will be not an int but a pointer to an int. And instead of simply going on to say what we're putting in that int, we have to take an extra step and create the space, which is what does. This function takes an argument that specifies how much space you need and then returns a pointer to that space. We've passed it the result of another function, , which we pass int, a type. In reality, is a macro, but for now we don't have to care: all we need to know is that it tells us the size of whatever we gave it, in this case an int. So when is done, it gives us an address in the heap where we can put an integer. It is important to remember that the data is stored in the heap, while the address of that data is stored in a pointer on the stack.
Posted by: Constance on January 18, 2004 11:56 PMThat gives us a pretty good starting point to understand a lot more about variables, and that's what we'll be examining next lesson. Those new variable types I promised last lesson will finally make an appearance, and we'll examine a few concepts that we'll use to organize our data into more meaningful structures, a sort of precursor to the objects that Cocoa works with. And we'll delve a little bit more into the fun things we can do by looking at those ever-present bits in a few new ways.
Posted by: Beatrice on January 18, 2004 11:56 PM