Gnonnet by end-user Greg Fraser

All This Hospitality and Kindness

All this hospitality and kindness,
it does not accept the first thing. Small,
he wants me—in view and not to smile. Yes,
I thought he had heard and seen it all . . .
Noble look. Rich and so. Promises
of faith and correspondence. On the evening
of “every thing go well and the oh!” he says
we’ll wed. I never have been a real thing.
We talk of the whole, the usual hour
of exploring, how ladies can never think
of pushing the paper. I protest against our
laughter now. I grow more frightened and sink
into fearful affection. London—it is
entirely a mistake. Candles everywhere. His.

Text: Jane Austen, Emma

Some Gnoetry Flarf for Y'all

I'm trying to loosen up a bit. The Same has been really demanding and increasingly serious in tone and content. I'm on vacation! And a little manic! So here's some Flarf.



First You'd Have to Make Her Feel It
Mon Jun 29 21:25:57 2009

As with a felony, each day, hot belly and the phone
off the web is the heroic attempt of puberty,

having no connection to CNN.com and started having sex.
But in my life carefully controlled and refined

sex. Though the men are better advised to
employ slaves; go to video display. I mean it's

all very chop chop. As we've seen, our
data might play teeter or seesaw, or do they

just shoot all they want to. The content, sir,
walked over to Microsoft. Oil is indeed a

woman's work, carrying away his prize, as
it appears, Greek style. This wedding excites me because

I'm in the Manga market. This is a completely new kind
of statement made by the dog as samples, indirect

blocks are insufferable. The problem really is stored in the
argument bar. Great animal instinct, we go

to the sentimental qualities of mankind and
minimize them with pony and lawyers, architects, and

the antique furniture everywhere was up
to their red asses and mysterious.


Texts:
Qzxrt, Aristocrats: Banned In Hell (uncensored)
Edited eRoK7 - VA, His & Hers Sources (Blog - Web)
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
The Internet, Linux HOWTOs



Put Your Finger on Parole
Mon Jun 29 22:06:00 2009

Meat and abnormalities.
The best means
of working people

from catching
the spark of virtuous
character, I

love the act of hunting,
a part of
I, black and

white supersonic
wave to me,
great was my boy's skates,

OK. The
constant flow
of crude. Blow for them in

sleep your brain
is called "The Dick," and shakes
everybody

off, maybe a
nice pump to bring forth life
in Germany.



Texts:
Qzxrt, Aristocrats: Banned In Hell (uncensored)
VA, Birth Source Text
Edited eRoK7 - VA, His & Hers Sources (Blog - Web)
Woods Hutchinson, The Child's Day



Gold Pimp Shit that Needs no Remedy
Mon Jun 29 22:28:01 2009

A bitch, to stay sober and
preposterous. The
addiction strategy
is just my body was

hard as Puritanism, on my back
to a drunkard or
criminal, if it's a feminist
poem of desire. I am

not able to eat me. I've told
this story. Man's love
is merciless: as
a queen, the love is unimpeachable.



Texts:
Qzxrt, Aristocrats: Banned In Hell (uncensored)
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
Edited eRoK7 - VA, His & Hers Sources (Blog - Web)

Free Grass (20 Haikus)

In a dream, Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass were made one! Here are the prophetic copyright fruits of my Sunday morning.

Sun Jun 28 10:32:55 2009 through Sun Jun 28 12:32:37 2009

O my brothers and
Warner Brothers, and the Marx
Brothers and sisters.



I find it very
hard disk. O to disengage
myself from my life.



Land of content that
fills me, the soul of me now
for distribution.



O to return to
paradise! O songs of life
now full of content.



I don't care whether
my students respect the law
they syndicated.



I love the wind with
girlish laughter, the Wayback
Machine is perfect.



O pulse of lonesome
love! Shapes of the computer
will not sing with us!



The flesh over and
over again, different
colors, races, dead.



Ah to sing of the
spray. The United States in
thee ejaculate!



This is a machine:
increasingly, the system
could be a list, great!



I don't think about
literacy. Land of the
justification.



Mark the inception
of copyright. Launched in dreams,
all of property.



The mania of
Americans, they do not
know what is enough.



How many people
rage, western youths, so vague and
yet so certain, too.



The young men! They do
not understand, but I too
love like the armies.



Rise up and gone and
done something unseen, with no
copying, Vista!



Land of values. I
do care whether my students
respect the market.



My face is access,
not permissions. I could be
hypocritical.



Worse yet, even as
I am rapt with love I fill
myself with soldiers.



Yes my enemies,
aware of the body and
mind, how will we live?



Texts:
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

The Ropes

Tried to lighten up the tone a bit. Not sure how well it turned out. Oh well.

Thu Jun 25 00:23:24 2009

the ropes · the pockets of the skin · in some
degree · the faithful top · a hat · the first
convenient place · a hut · the voyage was
committed to the present · wait a few ·
a few · perfect · in two canoe along
the strand · the piles · the larder · when the wood ·
already done · besides producing two ·
in short · approved the presence of canoes ·

the voyage · on the seamen's chests · create
a real affection for sometimes · in some
degree · sixteen · a voyage of a mile
in breadth · the two · in their canoes were there ·
a man · the women · two canoes · in some
convenient place · united · hit the smoke ·
in some · sufficient to capitulate ·
a thousand feet in length · the hut in sight ·

the women · two canoes · the manner and
persuasions of the men · united to
the two · in short · create a great surprise ·
the same position on the floor · the man ·
the place · a bed · consented · two canoes ·
the half a mile in breadth · awake · in some
convenient place · a haughty spirit · some
extraordinary antics · several tons ·

Texts:
R.M. Ballantyne, Cannibal Islands
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Thu Jun 25 18:35:39 2009 (Why, circling)

Why, circling
the woodlands, the shield may ascend to
heaven. What checks

the night like a
valve can be given thee! Get on
the cleft wood, placed in

regal lustre. Such toys.
I upon my bugle horn came from
earth is hypothetical,

and us eclipsed under
the doorway. To which
my theory these

remarks, now night her shadowy
cloud withdraws, I
will reign; as hybrids, when the pottle

out to sea and
thus a family, he will
be much more, the

successive changes in
the thickets like hounds that had lit up
the eyes; the rich and plentiful crop

had been screaming for
some of his hands
together. O thou for

whom and from the animals
which certainly do occur, and, are
really come to

an hour or
more species added to
our value, unattractive.



Texts:
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
John Milton, Paradise Regained
G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"

The Same - The Beach

Wed Jun 24 12:21:30 2009

the beach · the doctors of the photograph ·
in there · the root idea of the beach ·
the clear perception of the water and
a fine position there · in view · control ·
the margin of the island · and a break
in an enclosure of the island for
protection · simply to obliterate
the margin of the rushing of events ·

a bottle and the most familiar lips ·
a little finger · everywhere · the root
idea of delight · the night · the smoke ·
along the surf upon the shore · the night ·
across the island · as a thing before ·
returned · the sea before the British and
before the pictures on the beach · the sea
before · the root idea of relief ·

the instance of redemption · only smoke ·
the margin of events · a holiday ·
a fine position · as the night before ·
the effort to remain in everything ·
the root idea of delight · the night
advanced · surrounded by the presence of
the sea · a rush; reduced · upon the beach ·
the moment · steady · wrapped in everything ·

Gnoetry Installation Howto

I just posted a howto for installing Gnoetry 0.2 on my digital writing blog. I've been working on ways to run Gnoetry in its current form on computers that run Windows and Mac OS X, and thanks to Wubi and VMWare, I've been able to do just that without too much pain. Of course you can also follow the instructions for Ubuntu if you're running a clean Linux install.

My hope is that this will make the program more accessible while also spreading the joy of Ubuntu around.

On the Radio

Gnoetry on the radio...

Joe Milford interviews Eric Elshtain regarding, among other things, egoless poetry and the Gnoetically awesome.

See link under "Gnoetry on the Web"

Mon Jun 22 18:46:05 2009 (The Elders)

They that were
the elders
had declared

she had seen
on the list
of those she

remembered
the stars and
energy.



Texts:
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Hildegard G. Frey, The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, The Scrivener"
Anna Catherine Emmerich, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Jack London, Call of the Wild
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
The Apocrypha

The Same - The Self

Truckin' along. More of The Same.

The Self
Fri Jun 19 20:44:53 2009

the self · the kingdom of the body and
the scene · the ego · and the monkey · some
sensation of the scene · the surface · with
a great desire to evaporate ·
the kingdom of the scene · appearing most
convenient · all the winds in life · a good
supply · along the bad · the superfluous ·
the most severe · excited to agree ·

the kingdom of the head · the passing clouds ·
the monkey · glitter on the outer shell ·
a moment · some sensation of delight ·
the first detachment of the cultured · that
the whole arrangement is perfect · the days
in an extraordinary manner · of
a greater feeling of repair · rejoice
in passing through the body and return ·

in all the language of excitement · as
the slow evaporation of the birds ·
the good idea of the tree · again
returning with the birds · a vessel of
about the same · a living thing · again ·
the others · rises to the whole · became
absorbed in thought · a little monkey · and
the presence of the rattlesnake · attached ·


Texts:
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Fri Jun 19 21:01:40 2009 (I see a beautiful world)

But, Mr. Lorry, I see a beautiful world
we live in unison, and one hundred and five, guardians
of our adventures. The way he came, swinging his hammer,
soldiers laugh and pick him up, like some great height to france. And now a
gusty shower wraps the impossible. There he goes! And the light of
light, and where the moonshine strikes. Some arrows of the secret informer, so she
was, and my heart hath been our dwelling many years. Think, then madame, for
I esteem those names of men throwing black shadows in
the dark things that could prevent his being there with
those ideals which he answered. I would have liked to have a view of these things.
Is that all the fifteen were condemned, and therefore how could yeh hear
em talkin'? For I will swear to you, now that the cognac was not
within the locks and bars of the youth's face. The short
account of your mule drivers, expressions
of the officers shouting orders to overflowing.



Texts:
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sign of the Four
T.S. Eliot, Poems
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
John Milton, Paradise Regained

No Kick For Captain Nemo

Thu Jun 18 22:44:08 2009

"No crime," but I estimated,
"you ain't got no kick coming, Captain
Nemo." He took my station in
it. It was then that the moon was

then beginning to ravage
another man? And we were now
drawn up in the thickness of
a long talk with you. I tell you so

much to a quiet grave; and
he glared down at the time,
without being crushed! But
I have lost all men.



Texts:
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Jack London, Call of the Wild
The Apocrypha
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, The Scrivener"

The Same - The Wind

I've been expanding the list of texts being used on this project (The Same) considerably now to fifteen, all from Project Gutenberg. Some combinations of three are more rewarding / pleasing than others and less of a pain to work with. "The Wind" took me a while, and I'm not convinced that the three texts worked too well together. It usually works well to use two island-themed novels in conjunction with another wildcard text, usually philosophical or scientific in a non-island way (Darwin excluded).

Here is "The Wind":


Tue Jun 16 19:54:45 2009

the wind · a little · while the current of
the ocean was a barrel and a groove
in contradiction to the board · alone
in all the wind · the little left · a groove
in which the seas continued to complain ·
a little thing · in contradiction to
advance · the evil times · the current swept
the countryside · a mile away again ·

a little longer · by the breeze · the squall ·
the bobbing heads · in money · but were gone
away again · the chest · the barrels of
possessions · there were splashes · cocoanuts ·
the weather clear · the sun · the sea upon
the man in money · and the worship · as
the winds directed · and the sea upon
the sand a little way in magnitude ·

the currents doing · through the passage through
the wind · away · a little to the knees ·
the house in hand · a current and a great
desire to secure a hurricane ·
a current like the breaking of the sun
upon another · on the sand · upon
the floor · the bottom of a hurricane ·
the little money now · a little left ·



Texts:
Jack London, South Sea Tales
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Fannie Louise Apjohn, The Enchanted Island

Wed Jun 17 20:27:36 2009

That's true, it isn't
good enough for him by the
windows, and their gates

decayed. Replied the ghost and
Scrooge sat down upon them next.



Text:
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Wed Jun 17 00:25:47 2009

Fifteen bottles and
the way I gave her a new
courthouse. A hypo.


Statistically Analyzed Text:
Kenneth McGaffey, The Sorrows of a Show Girl

Banker's Lament

Mon Jun 15 20:17:31 2009

I forgot to sneer at
Dobbin; and you see how he would
say what I want, from
the transaction, never was to

live cost free, and a great puff, and paid
his score; and he is come. The
causes which had befallen
him, Amelia made the

most splendid prospects, his reverence
continued, in the passage among the
banking colony there. I want to be
permitted to gamble, solitary.



Statistically Analyzed Text:
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

The Same - The Data

Fri Jun 12 19:31:46 2009

the data of relief · the island is
the segregation of relief · in truth ·
observing that the island was asleep ·
the coral ring until the sky · again ·
a fitful crackling · and the coke · perhaps ·
the feelings of the dawn the absolute ·
the sun the universal · here · in turn ·
unsteady · unattached · the human form ·

the madness of the human form · among
the fragments of the beast · the volume of
the scattered blood · the skin · the substance was
elastic · like the universal · and
the fragments of the universal sense ·
the bodies as attempts · direct · expressed
in such a thing · opaque · expressions of
the vast · amid the number of details ·

the body · at the first formation · these
attempts · again · in which the light · against
the dogma of phenomenon · debris ·
conceiving of coincidences · have
another datum: that the incomplete ·
explode · the coral ring becomes a wreck ·
a cousin of the body · one among
the omnipresence of phenomenon ·


Texts:
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned
R.M. Ballantyne, Cannibal Islands
H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Same - The Trouble

The Trouble
(Thu Jun 11 21:59:52 2009)

the trouble · yes · the knowledge of · in these
respects · in full costume · a pleasure from
the urging · and the building and reload ·
the hand in token of concepcion ·
in answer to the truth · attracted by
the simple maidens of concepcion ·
the strange excitement · rushed towards decay ·
a stranger to the future i suppose ·

the skin about the valley · riding by
the stranger · what a tumult of delight ·
the land becomes ignited · and in some
respects · in vain; the stopping of a few
suggestions: when pursued · cajoled · between
the rivals of concepcion · the two
extremes; beneath the lower end · a fruit ·
in which the body was removed · returned ·

the whole in its existence · should agree
in having everything appear · in most
extraordinary manner of the bomb ·
perhaps · in full costume · a stranger · should
agree in being fiercer than before ·
declared in all directions · volunteered ·
throughout the valley · all the knowledge of
the mind a strange appearance and surprise ·


Texts:
Roger Finlay, The Wonder Island Boys - The Tribesman
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
Herman Melville, Typee

Thu Jun 11 20:06:42 2009

Down there in the one they hurried out when
I doubted whether I should have been of
use to her immoral. You didn't see
anybody, it's gold! Was much gnashing
of teeth between her divorce. Down the hand
again the duties they have in that church,
she said they ought to challenge the senseless
way there. It doesn't matter... whether it
is not, perhaps down there? It seems she was
not unlike a terrestrial mushroom,
only I had a tragedy. I snapped
the last, became no race in the early
days of the clay, which was to tell a soul
and spirit in a palm in Washington.



Texts:
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
H. G. Wells, The First Men In The Moon
A. Maude Royden, Sex And Common-Sense

Wed Jun 10 19:29:01 2009 (Nonce Syllabic Donner)

The younger ones
and the right, which
were to be

hushed by the fence
and reach the
bowl, with its

banks of flowers
in countless shapes and
determination.


Statistically Analyzed Text:
Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

The Donner Haiku

Composed between 20:58:01 and 21:08:12 Tue June 9 2009



From this money, I
came into possession of
civilization.



Horses were grazing
on their way up, saying they
had endured. For her.



She kissed me and said
that she could not keep my feet
almost maddening.



He had promised to
care for their little daughter
who had been cut up.



Then I laid out my
treasured keepsakes. Each cow wore
a shawl, departed.



She had left us, let
me take him, jerked it off, with
their silks and grumbled.



I fancied grandma
would be ever ready for
the good indians.



Elliot soon starved
to death. Mrs. Brunner, told
him who should occur.


While the pines, and the
grave, for Mrs. Eddy lay
near the settlement.



All were anxious to
meet him part way down the walk,
and in that dungeon.


Texts:
Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

The Same - The Next

The Next
(Mon Jun 8 18:35:11 2009)

the next · the day before · the matter was
directed to another · not a trace ·
behind the eyes · a nest · severely · of
the day before in all directions · and
proceeded to the eye · accustomed to
proceed · in all the rocks · the atmosphere ·
the day in thousands · night arrived · the next ·
the long in going · little by degrees ·

in ruins · situated as before ·
the day in motion · traces of a flash
a very painful one · about a nest ·
petitioned for another · then the day
before · the forehead high · the transit of
alarm · the light in everything · in an
uncertain way · the glass in everything ·
the day before the head · alone · embarked ·

the contents of the first · among the rocks ·
the body to the rocks · towards the day
the first awake · the next · the kernels of
the matter over for a third · towards
the day the rocks were splintered · on a nest ·
preceded by the action of the world ·
in which the fruit · among the ruins · then
resumed · the first · preserved in everything ·

Texts:
Horatio Alger Jr., Joe The Hotel Boy
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
R.M. Ballantyne, Cannibal Islands

The Same - The Party (revised)

I've decided to expand the list of sources I'm working from for this series to add greater variation. I'm keeping with the island theme for the sources, throwing in a few oddball texts for texture. I'm still coming up with a final list, from which I will arbitrarily choose three texts for each poem. This one is a bit rough at the end, but I like the new directions it takes, especially in the first two stanzas.

I'm writing them one stanza at a time, saving each and then working on the next. This will allow me to revise any poem by just rewriting problem stanzas.

________________

The Party
(Wed Jun 3 12:43:38 2009) [revised Sat Jun 6 22:52:58 2009]

the party · and again · the slain were more
successful · opened · to the party to
a basement · to the point · the more askew ·
the thing · the very · yes · the master of
the house rejoiced in everything · the last ·
the most tattooed · the arrows with success ·
event in engineering · anything
in love · the hills in all directions man ·

the hills in all the time · the slain · towards
the trees the sound · upon the ground in two ·
the frightened and confused · the very · yes ·
the party · and a half in two · the wet ·
the body of the dolphin · what · the house
awake · the bottom · as the future · through
the fire with the other bodies · through
the green confusion · to the shore in two ·

the bottom · brown · bananas · plantains · and
in what a woman at a stretch · upon
the ground in engineering · again · through
the dark · the dolphin · firmness · as the king ·
in earnest · like the beast · the dolphin · came
in for the hundredth time · the most tattooed ·
upon the world · a creature · and the work
advances quickly · for the party man ·


Texts:
Feodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
R.M. Ballantyne, Cannibal Islands
H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

Wed Jun 3 19:40:34 2009 (cannibal renga)

He will meet me on
Old Lisa. She remembered
not so much to his

face the time when she carried
a large pan full of cold, and

reared me until I
had been unable to get
my arms around me.



Statistically Analyzed Text:
Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

Tue Jun 2 20:43:20 2009 (now in line)

The number, who in life, were now in line,
good-bye, were ready to depart. The first
relief, before attempting to avoid

the money. On the journey. When the time
the roads were heavy, and the others had
provided for the herds. Vallejo, who

in life, consented to provide. Before
the fire, mr. thompson from the ground
in going to hers, and the wild, amen.


Statistically Analyzed Text:
Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

Note the textual differences b/t the nonce syllabic form using this same text below and this blank verse.

Mon Jun 1 19:27:15 2009 (noon chores)

Our cattle, hides, and
I was. It was then believed that at
no time had the previous autumn
crowded in and around
snow peaks. I did not wish to make that
deferential bow, she finished
her sentence, and provisions to
leave the place I was. Was
it that way. A slight quivering of
the house. The rest of the child
of the soil around the
cabins near the ranch,
where we could often see it.
Women hurried through noon chores
to meet him part way down the settlements.



Texts:
Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate