PAROLE
L'origine della parola "robot": "As Oxford English Dictionary Chief Editor John Simpson writes, 'In 1920 the Czech writer Karel Čapek published his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) - in Czech, but with a strange new word (in English) in the title. Čapek said that the word was suggested to him by his brother Josef (from Czech robota 'forced labour, drudgery').' Čapek’s play featured artificial creatures that were biological rather than mechanical, created to do crappy jobs. That play made its way to New York in 1922, and the robot invasion of English was underway." msn.

DA ASCOLTARE
Derek Walcott che legge due poesie da White Egrets, la sua ultima raccolta. nyrb.