The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2. … - Philip Greenspun

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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.

Philip Greenspun

The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2. 0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.

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