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{{todo}}[[File:Joseph.png|thumb|right|''JOSEPH: Seems ... down here, we're all strangers. Permanently strange.'']]'''Joseph''' is the owner of [[Equus Oils]] and a friend of [[Lula]] and [[Donald]] from their college days. 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 ==According to the [[Rust Archives]], Joseph owns a 1974 VAM Station Wagon (Mexico City) and created a kinetic sculptural art piece (Elizabethtown) in 1968. Created the game "If I Had My Way, I’d Tear the Building Down" shown in the (text) museum near the Márquez farmhouse. Has a niece who works at the hospital. == Name == Joseph is named after the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum ("Weizenbaum" is German for "wheat tree"), 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 (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.
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