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| − | '''Joseph Wheattree''' is the owner of [[Equus Oils]] and a friend of [[Lula]] and [[Donald]] from university. 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]]''.
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| − | == Life and work ==
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| − | Joseph created the game "If I Had My Way, I’d Tear the Building Down" in 1985, shown in the (text) [[museum]] near the [[Márquez Farmhouse]]. In the [[Rust Archives]], two sets of samples are under Joseph's name: "Mexico City, VAM Station Wagon, 1974" and "Elizabethtown, Kinetic Sculpture, 1968."
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| − | == Family ==
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| − | 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.
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| − | == Name & development ==
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| − | 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 – 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.
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| − | 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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