EXPression is eAsY

Which is easiest to explain?

• NP-Completeness
• Saving Kirtland's Warbler
• Reading Dante's Italian
• Reading your lover's body
• Mortality

MYTHS OF ART & SCIENCE

"For whom are you judging that things will be easy, or natural, or friendly?"

— Douglas Engelbart, 1984

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There is NO operational distinction between artistic writing and practical writing.

Look at the real, everyday tasks we ask literature to undertake. Look at the most important things YOU have to say.

Simple structures and simple hierarchies are usually the solution for someone else's problems.