Monday Morning

News over the weekend: someone in Paignton has actually supplied six monkeys with typewriters, to see how much and of which authors they’d produce. they got bored — the scientists that is — and stopped after six weeks, but not before the macaques had reached a state that takes professionals a lifetime. A spokesman explained: “The monkeys aren’t reducible to a random process. They get bored and they shit on the keyboard rather than type.”