Such is Turing's legacy: that of a nested chain of pretenses, each pointing not to reality, but to the caricature of another idea, device, individual, or concep

Such is Turing's legacy: that of a nested chain of pretenses, each pointing not to reality, but to the caricature of another idea, device, individual, or concept. This quote summarizes the article. Basically that Alan Turing lived in an imaginary world that was nothing like reality. He was a pretender according to the author. This is a veiled and cheap slight at a great man long after his death. Using the word 'pretense' when the word 'imagination' should have been used changes the whole meaning of the article. Alan Turing used his imagination as did all the great scientists and inventors have. We will never know his deepest and innermost thoughts but that does not matter as much as we know what they were like. We know because of what he wrote. We know that he suffered greatly. This article(although more veiled in it's attack) is just another in a series that are quite disgusting in how they distort the social importance of this mans life.