These are background and source notes to the Grammar. Some of you have
requested them:
The People:
The High Priests: ancient race believed to be extinct
The Masters: inherited The Grammar and The Language from the High
Priests. Some of them are still alive. Many Web Intellectuals rank
amongst The Masters
Tim: Berners-Lee, Tim, invented the 20th century Web at CERN
This is a sample of his writings: "Web Etiquette for Information
Providers" <http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Provider/Style/Etiquette>
Jalaludin Al Rumi: 12th century influential Sufi philosopher and poet.
Best known translations of his works are by Coleman Barks
Rabindranath Tagore: Bengali poet and Noble Laureate
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780-850): invented Algebra (The Book
of Algebra and Almucabola and The Book of Restoration and Opposition of
Number) amongst other things:
khayam: Omar Khayam, poet most known for his 'Ruba'iya't (The
Quartets)
Kazantzakis: Nikos, Greek author of the 'Fratricides', 'Zorba The
Greek' and 'Report to Greco'
Bulgakov: Mikhail, author of 'The Master and Margarita'
Paulo Coelho: author of 'The Alchemist'
Grace: British general practitoner somewhere
The Wanderer: remains undefined
Ahmad Risk: thoughts, writings and conversations 1974-1998
Places:
The Well: http://http.well.com
GenX: one of the first conferences at The Well
Electronic Frontier Organization: http://www.eff.org
WWW Consortium: http://www.w3.org
One hundred million and more other Web places
'Of Some Place Else':
The Holy Qora'n
Noor
The Cave
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These notes cover The Grammar so far. There will be other characters,
places and 'Of Some Place Else' notes introduced to The Grammar in the
future.
Ahmad
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Dr Ahmad Risk
http://mednetics.org
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