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Introduction / (Letter To) Adress to the Reader
- Preface/Foreword : 200y Frankenstein/festival /Switzerland ...  
- Letter #1 : essential phrase 'what is this publication'  
- Letter #2: why Bots ? 
- Letter #3 : set-up with Raspberry Pi & IRC /// why IRC?
- Letter # 4 : what happened before Chapter 11  
electrocution bot 

over the different chapters: 
    1. have uglybot commenting on how monster feels rejected
    2. combined with images (films)
    3. create list of most important words (plot analysis) + thematic lists (manually ie climate: ice, cold, etc ) to highlight words in pages

Chapter 11
Introduction 200 words
[Beginning of the M's narration]: 
    the M escapes from the lab, he wanders the forests, he learns the senses, fire and cold. 

• train cowbot with txt that talks about senses (Henry Miller ;-))

    The M discovers people are afraid of him. He decides to stay away from humans. 
    He finds shelter in a hovel from which he can spy on some cottagers (a young man and woman, an old man).

•     hovelbot : needs separate logfile (scraping_hovel.py), find more machines
•     makeupbot: the Monster opens his eyes => the M00nster 00pens his eyes => the Moonster oopens his eyes

Chapter 12
Introduction 200 words
The M discovers they live in poverty, he feels guilty that he’s been stealing food from their orchard, he then looks for wood for them. 
He learns some words by observing and listening - connecting concepts to sounds. 
He spends the whole winter in the hovel.

Chapter 13
Introduction 200 words
The M improves his understanding of language from the cottagers's lesson to their host (Arabian woman). 
He learns about the pleasures and obligations of human families, he feels even more miserable.
Monster questions its identity.

• learning_definitions
• whois

Chapter 14
Introduction 200 words
The M learns the story of the family. 

• -> leave out? new idea?

Chapter 15
Introduction 200 words
The M learns to read with some books he finds. He reads about how F created him (from a piece of paper he found in the pockets of his coat). He convinces himself he can tell his miserable story to the cottagers so they will become friends with him. The M enters the cottage to reveal himself to the (blind) old man who gladly speaks to him. The other three suddenly return and chase the M away, terrified by his appearance.

• neural net bot

Chapter 16
Introduction 200 words
The M gets angry from this rejection and he makes his way towards Geneva to take revenge from his creator. On his way, he finds a young girl in danger, he saves her but he’s accused of attacking her. His anger grows. When in Geneva, he runs into F’s young brother, who he kills in revenge. 

• murderbot - kills all users that have been in chat

[The M's narration stops here - we're back in the mountain hut]: the M tells F he wants a companion otherwise his revenge will continue.

# Final letter
How the story ends 
How the monster goes beyond language
permutation bot
zalgo bot
non ne w tonian bot
graphs of the logs


Writing tasks:

writing preface: (Catherine) OK
writing letter #1: what is this publication (An) OK
writing letter #2: why bots (Anne) 
writing letter #3: technical set-up (James) 
writing letter #4: what happens before chapter 11 (Piero) (James) 
writing introduction chapter 11: cowbot/hovelbot/makeupbot (James) (Catherine)
writing introduction chapter 12: Markov chains (Piero) (James)
writing introduction chapter 13: learning definitions, whois (Anne)(An)
writing introduction chapter 14: bot family story (Piero)(together)
writing introduction chapter 15: neural net bot (Piero)(James)
writing introduction chapter 16: murderbot (Anne)
writing final letter: permutation/zalgo/graphs/liquid (Piero)
writing colophon and meta pages

Schedule for the Festival day:
    
    19.15: Constant Presentation - An
    19.45: Reading Introduction Text - Catherine
    20.00: Performing Chapter 11 & 12  
    20.30: Novel Presentation (Piero)
    21.00: Performing Chapter 13 & 14
    21.30: Performing Chapter 15 & 16
    22.00: Performing Final letter
    
    
preparing public reading of bot/human texts
setting up bot family station that runs all the time (projector #1)
setting up chatting station for visitors (terminal A) (monitor and lighting)
setting up chatting station for visitors (entrance)(cowbot)(keyboard + computer)
setting up physical interface stations (electrocution/non-newtonian fluid) ()
setting up PJ box station
displaying the books

Evening:
presentation of Constant/Algolit/Frankenstein Workgroup (An)
presentation of the novel (Piero)

Things to ask:
monitor
keyboard
extra tables
lighting