Sarah Jacobs

Some Lives from
Song of the Data Stream


The lives are those of Mrs Margaret Oliphant, novelist, 1828–1897 (translated by Sarah Jacobs); Mary Knox Tisdall, artist, 1883–date of death unknown (mainly in her own words); and scores of other people most or perhaps all of whom were alive in 2005 and who, being alive, have earned the solace of anonymity.

Quotations (and misquotations) from NATURE with particular thanks to

PHILLIP BALL, BEN E. BLACK, DANIEL R. FOLTZ, SRINIVAS CHAKRAVARTHY, KAROLIN LUGER, VIRGIL L. WOODS JR & DON W. CLEVELAND, DAVID M. SAYAH, ELENA SOKOLSKAJA, LIONEL BERTHOUX & JEREMY LUBAN, MANOLIS KELLIS, BRUCE W. BIRREN & ERIC S. LANDER, LINGCHONG YOU, ROBERT SIDNEY COX III, RON WEISS & FRANCES H. ARNOLD. DAVID A. F. LOEBEL & PATRICK P. L. TAM, KEVIN L. C. WANG, HITOSHI YOSHIDA, CLAIRE LURIN & JOSEPH R. ECKER. JEAN WEISSENBACH, ANNE CONDON, SABINE SCHMITT & RENATO PARO, LAURA N. BORODINSKY, CORY M. ROOT, JULIA A. CRONIN, SHARON B. SANN, XIAONAN GU & NICHOLAS C. SPITZER, GEORGII A. BAZYKIN, FYODOR A. KONDRASHOV, ALEKSEY Y. OGURTSOV, SHAMIL SUNYAEV & ALEXEY S. KONDRASHOV, DAVID GATFIELD & ELISA IZAURRALDE, CHRISTOPHER H. CONTAG & MICHAEL H. BACHMANN, PHIL OH, YAN LI, JINGYI YU, EBERHARD DURR, KAROLINA M. KRASINSKA, LUCY A. CARVER, JACQUELINE E. TESTA & JAN E. SCHNITZER, MASANORI MATSUZAKI, NAOKI HONKURA, GRAHAM C. R. ELLIS-DAVIES & HARUO KASAI, GE GUO, WEI WANG & ALLAN BRADLEY, BRENDAN N. LILLEY & HIDDE L. PLOEGH, RANDY SCHEKMAN, JING-DONG J. HAN, NICOLAS BERTIN, TONG HAO, DEBRA S. GOLDBERG, GABRIEL F. BERRIZ, LAN V. ZHANG, DENIS DUPUY, ALBERTHA J. M. WALHOUT, MICHAEL E. CUSICK, FREDERICK P. ROTH & MARC VIDAL, ANTON MEINHART & PATRICK CRAMER, CARL D. NOVINA & PHILLIP A. SHARP , BHAGWAN D. AGGARWAL & BRIAN R. CALVI, HIROMASA NINOMIYA, RICHARD P. ELINSON & RUDOLF WINKLBAUER, EDWARD H. LIAO, WESLEY HUNG, BENJAMIN ABRAMS & MEI ZHEN, VICTOR SEREBROV & ANNA MARIE PYLE, ZACHARY LIPPMAN, ANNE-VALÉRIE GENDREL, MICHAEL BLACK, MATTHEW W. VAUGHN, NEILAY DEDHIA, W. RICHARD MCCOMBIE, KIMBERLY LAVINE, VIVEK MITTAL, BRUCE MAY, KRISTIN D. KASSCHAU, JAMES C. CARRINGTON, REBECCA W. DOERGE, VINCENT COLOT & ROB MARTIENSSEN, DANIEL COMAS, FLORIAN PETIT & THOMAS PREAT, HELEN R. PILCHER, MICHAEL D. SHAPIRO, MELISSA E. MARKS, CATHERINE L. PEICHEL, BENJAMIN K. BLACKMAN, KIRSTEN S. NERENG, BJARNI JO´NSSON, ADOLPH SCHLUTER & DAVID M. KINGSLEY, CLAIRE BERTET, LAWRENCE SULAK & THOMAS LECUIT.





Read by Sarah Jacobs with
            Alex Walker                  alex@caslon.fsnet.co.uk
            Richard Makin                terraincognita0@hotmail.com
Sound Recordist — Mick Hobbs     info@lifeandliving.net    With thanks to Life & Living.

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