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“... machine at the other end of a telex line could be distinguished from a human reasoner. Bolter is somewhat scornful of the AI movement. He sees it as yet another instance of the age-old project of ‘making a human being by other than the ordinary reproductive means’, by which man seeks to ‘raise himself above the status that nature seems to ...”

“... who consequently failed to develop a heart and turned into another kind of monster, a bolter. (She was, in fact, one of the models for Nancy Mitford’s famous Bolter in The Pursuit of Love.) She abandoned her children and had an insatiable ‘need to be noticed’. Blow rather imprudently describes this failing ...”

“... mentioned by Nicholas Rowe in 1709) adds force. The book opens with a brisk pair of essays by David Fallow and Michael Wood on the subject of his parents: John Shakespeare, born in about 1530, the son of a tenant farmer in the outlying village of Snitterfield, and Mary née Arden, some years younger, of a more prosperous family from Wilmcote. Neither of ...”