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Content Dear Editor:<br/> <br/> As an admirer of Bulwer-Lytton's filmed classic, I must correct John Cumming's statement that <span style="font-style: italic;">The Last Days of Pompeii</span> was made into three movies. To date there have been six: an Italian one-reeler in 1908 (directed by Ambrosio); a six-reel film by Ambrosio in 1913; a two-reel version (pirated) from Italy in 1913 combining footage from the 1908 version and Itala's <span style="font-style: italic;">The Fall of Troy </span>(Italy, 1911); and a fourth film, eight reels this time, made in Italy in 1913 by Pasquali, a former partner of Ambrosio. The Italians weren't satisfied - in 1926 Carmine Gallone directed a fifth Italian version (nine reels). The one non-Italian version was made in the U.S. in 1935 by Ernest B. Schoedsack.<br/> <br/> With the current interest in volcanoes it would seem to be time for another version.<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;">Paul W. Healy<br/> </div> <br/> <br/> [line width="40%"]Dear Editor:<br/> <br/> I enjoy <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Ecphorizer</span> but do wish you printed the addresses of the writers. I'd like to write to some of them.<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;">Virginia Sturges<br/> </div> <br/> <span style="font-style: italic;">I will forward letters to contributors. --Ed.</span><br/> <br/> <br/> [line width="40%"]Dear Editor:<br/> <br/> Mr. Ed Rehmus challenged the readership to provide “in any language, a Legitimate word for this substance [hemp]...that is truly isolated from the universal roots.”<br/> <br/> Without going into the matter of his etymological approaches, which I find somewhat suspect, I will offer in evidence the African word <span style="font-style: italic;">dawamesc</span>, which certainly means hemp or marijuana but does not conform to Mr. Rehmus's models.<br/> <br/> I regret that I am unable to name the exact language or dialect from which this word derives.<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;">Terry T. Tilford<br/> </div> <br/> <br/> [line width="40%"]Dear Editor<br/> <br/> I received the February <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ecphorizer</span> today (late again; start sending it on time and maybe these things won't happen). In it I read that silly article "Randomness and Artificial Intelligence," by George Towner. Then I read the blurting allegedly written by some computer seduced by his Prosewriter program ("software," he said - and elaborately rationalized by him in the foregoing). In <span style="font-style: italic;">Spaceships and Angels</span> Fred C. Brown had a story entitled "ETAOIN SHRDLU," in which a cunningly placed linotype began to take over Planet Earth by programming those who thought they programmed it; Huxley had an essay entitled "Time and the Machine," another revelation about machine takeover of this planet.<br/> <br/> The point is, you computer Congeries are going to have to recognize that your addiction to electronics is not machine-free; that computers <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> machines; and that these computer-machines <span style="font-style: italic;">are taking you over.</span><br/> <br/> OK. I read about Prosewriter. Then I wrote a rather brief letter of complaint to you and the whole bunch at <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Eephorizer</span>. Needing a stamp, I went to the USPS Automat. I put a quarter in a machine. Then this obnoxious sonnet came out:<br/> <br/> <div style="text-align: center;">SONNET TO PROSEWRITER: FROM AN ADMIRER<br/> </div> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 160px;">"A poem reproduces my program."<br/> <div style="margin-left: 40px;">–Prosewriter.l, "Mysteries About Atoms"<br/> </div> <br/> "'Essence is a deceptive mystery.' <br/> Her eyes were like an essence and, therefore, <br/> Mysterious. Mysteriously she <br/> (Just with those eyes no cognate could ignore) <br/> Sorted the quintessential randomness <br/> Sparking between us. Her synaptic merge <br/> Complexified our feinting to progress <br/> From since to sense. I urged to demiurge: <br/> 'Let us consume a very good steak and...’<br/> Explore our functions, for the wind tonight <br/> Is full of moonlight getting out of hand. <br/> Turn on! you bold Prosewriter, let us write. <br/> Read out to me your bytes, completional. <br/> Your 'circuit cards are very beautiful.'" <br/> </div> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;">by Rave Dolph<br/> </div> <br/> <br/> [line width="40%"]Dear Editor:<br/> <br/> Is <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Ecphorizer</span> converting me into a go-between between machines? Stop it. Use microdots.<br/> <br/> <div style="margin-left: 360px;">LeStrobe<br/> <br/> <img width="20" height="13" alt="" src="/EPS/pictures/Image/EckE.gif"/></div>

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