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About Quintin Scott
- Born: St Peter Port, Guernsey, 22nd June 2008
- Now lives: Mendips, North Somerset.
- Current favourite authors: Icelandic saga authors.
- Current favourite artists: Salvador Dali, Leonards da Vinci.
- Most influential childhood read: Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy.
- Family: father by adoption Alan Scott, writer, web designer; mother by adoption Victoria Scott neé Traverne.
- Most memorable moment: seeing Leonardo Da Vinci's charcoal and chalk cartoon of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist in the National Gallery, London for the first time.
Having just turned twenty years old, Quintin is studying a new course that Bath University is offering in Art and Machine Intelligence. Quintin is never more at home than with his paint and his pastels, his computer, his books and his sketching materials, and he likes to keep up with the new discoveries and experiments in the field of artificial life through the many new magazines that have sprung up everywhere.
Since the begining of his compulsory gap year, Quintin and his girlfriend Miranda Beckinsale have rented a disused church in the Mendips and now, as his studies resume, Quintin has begun to use machine intelligence to expand upon his father's work.
Following a traffic incident, Quintin has recenty been moved to write this poem:
Tommy It is a fragile thing, bloodandtoungueandeyes in a bag of fur. Is human deity not as commonly perceived an arrogance, but a necessary means to separate the everyday squashingofantsandcattleandpigs from the departure of a human life. to lift a human death from the humdrum everyday death of everything else. (possibly, in a cat world squashingofantsandhumansandmice is separated from the noble flight of a feline soul).Quintin's only cat now is called Freddy. Freddy likes to sleep on a footstool while Quintin is drawing or reading or listening to music or writing computer code or watching his VQR or speaking to Miranda. Freddy agrees that the human belief that animals have no consciousness should be abandoned, and continually thinks of new ways to convince Quintin of this fact. Quintin likes to sketch Freddy while the cat is preparing himself for a further demonstration of this truth.
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