Optron #12 22 мая 1998

ZX vs PC

short ... - On the great opposition ZX and PC.

         In short, Sklifosovsky!

                   or

       shortness - the sister of talent!



(C) Tertius Gaudens


                 - I wish that in the newspaper

               a department of literary critical
               tics. I want to write critical
               cal articles. I have all of you

               dolt! By nature I am not

               Pushkin. I'm kind of Be
               Linsky.

               - You are by nature kadavr.


               br.Strugatskie. "Monday

               begins on Saturday "


  In the 11 th issue of PCP placed great
material of great opposition "ZX versus PC".

  Cum grano salis considered various
aspects of the conflict, ex professio unsealed
its origins and essence. Summa summarum material can be 
expressed in the table below. 



  PC Applications


       Such a Syakaya a self-affirmation


   ZX + - + + +


   PC - + + + +



  But!

  The manner of presentation is so typical that it deserves a 
separate discussion - slightly, as you've guessed it parodied.


  Before the ad valorem rate and depth
subtlety of thought (in natura!) with respect to
Great confrontation, the reader must know that their author:

  - Familiar with the later work br.Strugatskih;

  - At the time he pochityval five-volume
Ilf-Petrov;

  - Stores the old annual kits KNOWLEDGE
- POWER;

  - Et caetera nec plus ultra.

  All this, of course, very commendable, but
Who, I ask, I wonder, besides the author himself - for the sake 
of his own self? 

  I propose an experiment - put in opus
something like "In a white cloak with blood-
red lining ... ... An endless Moria "rows
such things at 600 - and nobody, I assure you will not notice
forgery. (But with other material from the same # 11 - about 
modems - such a focus does not pass).


  Lord! Surely it is not clear that if the igni
et ferro expel all licentia poetica, then
material will only gain, turning from the uncut diamonds in a 
diamond? 



  And yet come across (and not only in
PCP!) Articles which, if deprived of
of the BS, there will be no
verba magistri, but only testamentum
paupertatis; implicite which proclaimed that "The creation of 
this miracle of the author spurred the "what



     - Having mastered the dialectic laws

     Armed with a clear outlook

     And mastering the technique of knowledge;

     Critically apprehended

     Cultural heritage of our ancestors

     And inspired by the idea of ​​a shining light

     Serve the truth;

     Having checked strictly all filosofemy

     The criteria for practice -

     I opened up the truth

     That twice two is four!

     Opening his own - will grant the world!

     ...........................

     Let everyone know

     That twice two is four!

     That the multiplicand with the factor being killed,

     Creating a product.

     After all, truth is born in agony

     And in this - secrecy being

     I opened it like a stew jar

     Knife knowledge!

           Yu Ivakin. Humor is the satire. -

           K.: Dnipro, 1986, p.179-180

           (My translation).


  And shocked readers can only
cry out in response:


     - Oh adversary! Penetrated you

     In God's secret!

     Are anathema to you! Cirrhosis of the liver

     And three heart attacks in the heart -

     Ring of truth you do not deny this!

                                Ibid.



  Of course, graphomania - a noble affliction.
(Do not I know! Himself such). A similar
exercise in belles-lettres (tacito
consensu edition) - perhaps
only chance to tell urbi et orbi of
sore. Verba volant, scripta manent!

  But! In the heart of every graphomaniac - regardless of its 
publication - should always be lit dream to publish something 
more substantial in something much more solid. Manual 
operation, for example, or there - the flyer. And, not trained

from the beginning to the writer's self-discipline, not having 
learned that est modus et rebus, - even dream about this is not 
necessary. 

  So, fellow graphomaniac! Ne quid nimis!
Create only non multa, sed multum! Not
allow the transition from creeping graphomania form 
burnoprogressiruyuschuyu! 

  The recipe is simple. It is known from the same
Ilf-Petrov: from any material, especially
than to present his "public reading" throw at least two pages, 
and add then there is not more than two lines.


  Dixi et animam levavi.



                   P.S.



  Demonstrated a quasi-erudition drawn from the "Concise 
Dictionary of Foreign keywords:


  tertius gaudens - literally - a "third
raduyuschiysya, ie third person, retrieves
benefit from the struggle between the two adversaries;

  versus - against;

  Cum grano salis - "with a grain of salt, with
wit and irony;

  ex professio - with knowledge;

  Summa summarum - "Subtotal", the final outcome;

  ad valorem - in dignity;

  in natura - in kind (Estimate: modern slang goes back to 
classical Latin!) 

  et caetera - and so on;

  nec plus ultra - to the extreme;

  igni et ferro - "fire and sword, mercilessly;

  licentia poetica - Poetic
liberty;

  verba magistri - speech teacher;

  testamentum paupertatis - witness
squalor;

  implicite - confusing;

  Ibid. - From Ibidem - ibid (standard
The term Western Bibliography);

  tacito consensu - with the tacit consent;

  urbi et orbi - "the city and the world," to the public;

  Verba volant, scripta manent - words
fly away, written remains;

  Est modus et rebus - there is a limit;

  Ne quid nimis - nothing superfluous;

  non multa, sed multum - "not much, but
much, "said close, thoughts roomy"
(Typically use the opposite principle
- For "keyboard given to user for
to conceal his thoughts "- especially their
absence;

  Dixi et animam levavi - said and facilitating the soul.



                  P.P.S.



  Pocket set of quasi-erudite:

  "In a white cloak with blood-red lining ..." -
Bulgakov. "The Master and Margarita";

  "... An endless Moria" - Tolkien.
"The Lord of the Rings."