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N. Nagaraj

You know your lines and your part by heart. - S. THANTHONI

You have put all your favourite books, films and music on the Internet so that you can enjoy and share them with other people. And one day, your collection is missing: hacked out, lost in a server crash, or simply stopped by law.

Now, you have the printed book or the music CD but what can you do about it when you have only your online copies?

Keeping this in mind (no pun intended), and extending it, is "charade", a distributed performance that is going to culminate in a live finale on April 28 in Birmingham, UK (details at http://www.charade.org.uk).

Volunteers choose a part of a book, a play, or a song, and memorise it.

A series of workshops were held to help volunteers do this effectively while continuing their normal day-to-day work.

At the finale, the volunteers will recite their chosen piece from memory together.

What one will hear will be eclectic snatches of dialogue and music, very much like the shards from a broken Internet, but the volunteers would have "become" their chosen media asset.

Just hope that your CIO doesn't ask you to memorise tables and data, making all of you a part of the enterprise disaster-recovery plan.

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