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[[File:Joseph.png|thumb|right|''JOSEPH: Seems ... down here, we're all strangers. Permanently strange.'']]
'''JosephWheattree''' is the owner of [[Equus Oils]] and a friend of [[Lula]] and [[Donald]] from their college daysuniversity. Joseph has gray hair, is blind, and wears dark glasses. Joseph created the [[XANADU]] software with Lula and Donald, and also adapted two of [[Lem Doolittle]]'s plays for performance as ''[[The Entertainment]]''.
== Life and work ==
== Family ==
Joseph has a niece who works at a hospital. He used to have a cat, which passed away at some point after he was in university.
== Name & development ==
Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum (with "Weizenbaum" meaning "wheat tree" in German), who created [[wikipedia:ELIZA|ELIZA]] (which was named after ''[[wikipedia:Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'''s Eliza Doolittle), a computer program that took on the persona of a psychotherapist – notablysimilar notably similar to the "Psychotherapist" game found on Joseph's computer at Equus Oils); this program had a large influence on the development of text adventure games.
Per the {{V&A}}, along with the Weizenbaum inspiration, Joseph is also modeled after real-life psychologist [[wikipedia:Carl Rogers|Carl Rogers]] and the psychiatrist Martin Dysart from the play ''[[wikipedia:Equus (play)|Equus]]''.
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