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								{TIME \@ "d MMMM, yyyy"|9 October, 1993}

J.de Rivas,
Fractal Report,
West Towan House,
Porthtowan,
Truro,
Cornwall,
TR4 8AX

Dear John,

	Thanks for the recent copies of Fractal Report and Longevity Report and for mentioning NHI Review therein. 

	Regarding the latter, I try sending issues to different reviewers, hopefully the more open-minded ones. Their scepticism is probably no more than an adequate reflection of the general public's apathy to all alternative ideas.

	I think for some of us Fractals are indeed no more than pretty pictures. My wife asked me to define the word for her recently and I couldn't. Nor was the word to be found in an otherwise very up-to-date dictionary. I therefore welcome your idea of expanding the scope of the magazine. To that end I enclose a short article Poetry & Computers.  It is based on part of an article that appeared in Dial 174 whose editor had asked me to write about various aspects of my work. I have amended to it some useful address. After the appearance of the original article I heard from a writer who is using the program to generate prose.

	The enclosed disc contains the article as the file ENGLAND.DOC. This the original Word for Windows format. ENGLAND.TXT and ENGLAND.ASC  are ASCII versions, one with layout, one without (I forget which is which). This letter is saved similarly.

	BABBLE.ZIP is the original shareware version of the program. I assume you have a copy of  PKUNZIP.  The other *.BAB files are files of my own texts that I use with the program. The PM* files are files of some poems that I have written using the program. These are of course my own copyright. You may reprint any that you feel might complement the article, but note the following have already been published and acknowledgements of previous publication should be made:-

PM813		Experiment in Poetry		first published in TOPS
PM820		Experiments in Marginalization	first published in TOPS
PM837		Genesis Ver.8.37		first published in International Poetry (USA)
PM846		In The Spirit			first published by International Writers & Artists 									Association
PM850		Reply to Information		first published in Dial 174
PM856		Memoirs of Maastricht		first published in Mobius (USA)
PM860		Starting Windows		first published in Dada Tennis (USA)

	This disc of files can be made available to your readers through yourself if you prefer or from myself. I can supply material on either size disc for a nominal 1 fee including postage, an extra 1 if I supply the disc. Readers should indicate if they already have copies of PKUNZIP and LHARC as I shall save all these files on my hard-disc in an .ARCed format.

	All best wishes, whatever the outcome





	Gerald England

PS I typed in the short Popcorn program for a recent FR - had to change a line or two to suit GWBasic, but it creates a nice screen display. 
