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2009-11-26T20:22:00.001-08:00

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Gnoetry and Deja Dit

2009-11-19T21:34:00.000-08:00

From the collection of essays edited by Craig Dworkin, The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics, here is a relevant exerpt from Marjorie Perloff's contribution, "The Pleasures of Deja Dit: Citation, Intertext and Ekphrasis in Recent Experimental Poetry." I think it does a good job of situating our Gnoetry work (some strains of it, at least) within the larger context of current experimental poetry.

The limits of my language, in Wittgenstein's words, are the limits of my world. In this scheme of things, the poetic drive is, in Adorno's terms, one of resistance: the resistance of the individual poet to the linguistic field of capitalist commodification where language has become merely instrumental.

But in the climate of the new century, where sites of resistance have become increasingly eroded, we seem to be witnessing a poetic turn from negation and resistance to dialogue--a dialogue with earlier texts or texts in other media, or "writings through" or ekphrases that permit the poet to participate in a larger, more public discourse, even as the poet's personal signature is once again present. Such poetry is often meditative, but meditation is made oblique by the use of Oulipo constraint, citation, and the reliance on intertext: appropriation, after all, is now a central fact of life. As such, we are witnessing a new poetry, more conceptual than expressive--a poetry in which, in Craig Dworkin's words, "the idea cannot be separated from the writing itself." (257)

I have to agree that "appropriation... is now a central fact of [poetic] life" for me. My music collection has benefited greatly from it too. On multiple layers of society, concepts of ownership have been challenged, made void and/or remade by revolutions and re-revolutions in technology. To ignore such that these upheavals are not relevant to poetry is foolish. Other artforms have been dealing with the implications of technology and contemporary thought for most of the last century, yet is seems that the bulk of poets remain attached to ideas rooted in the Romantic and Victorian periods. Painters who today paint fields and Impressionist landscapes are not usually artists taken seriously within their discipline. Why should the same not be true in poetry?

Anyway, I submit this excerpt for your consideration. The rest of the essay and the rest of the book is highly recommended too.

6X6X6 - One Poem

2009-11-18T17:01:00.001-08:00

Reviving The Stone Age
Fri Nov 13 00:38:59 2009

Not phenomenal. The
lovemaking was more than
a critique of structured
market policy, the
skirt because she liked the
feel of warm skin next to

the corporate sector
authority. Using
a technology that
was gay, lesbian, and
repression. It was for
Pierre, the air, that smells

wonderful. He is at
war with their long embrace.
In our waters! I
am thankful those people
are carnivorous, the
girls eventually

awoke from reviving
the stone age. No means the
two are about to fuck
him. The sperm was absurd.
The sperm was pumped out of
the planet. They fucked the

tiny breasts of being.
They cut off the fetters
of everything. These huge
creatures used their youth to
chase after bad boys who
negotiated the

little stream and drank the
salty flavor of love
letters, and for the World
Trade Center, Paradise
City added to the
rest of experience.

Texts:
VA, Birth Source Text
VA, Alien SciFi Sex Fictions
Various Authors (Ed. EScovel), His $ Hers Sources
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
Qzxrt, Aristocrats: Banned In Hell (uncensored)
Immanuel Kant (trans. Meiklejohn), The Critique of Pure Reason

6x6x6 - Two Poems

2009-11-17T22:12:00.000-08:00

Practical Tips For Rainbow Guacamole Dick
Wed Nov 18 00:05:05 2009

That is because they need.
This is the liver, its
baby blue rubber boots
are the snags: hello, all
naked, imagine that
bad joke. Crowbar is a

mystery, mommy, or
please me. More up to plug
the parenthesis, a
great fuck. It grieves me up
tight, no one will ever
make the document that

will become weaker and
weaker, oblivious
to the beautiful in
fact, I promise you it
is very sexy and
unalterable. That

is why it's so hard as
he says to undress. I
suppose he wouldn't be
too big for me. It was
shining, if cans, cans for
today, rainbows, and lay

on top. Practical tips
to help combat boredom.
For young men who were both
stark naked, rubbing it
firmly behind his own
good guacamole, he

starts to lick, lick it. Then
the meat had entered, the
forbidden dick of the
pussy. I really care
if I don't really
care about anything.

___________________________________

Not Very Different With A Vengeance
Wed Nov 18 01:05:20 2009

Ok... you want to smoke
and talk about what just
occurred. Don't care. I just
want her strong urine, she
uses some french perfume
there and water. That way

I truly care about
this, it is soft and more
of a word or long word.
Testicle will totter.
I love when real love is
like warm piss! Test it now

leave. What followed was not
very different with
a vengeance; and so on
down. Sasha and kim's tongue
plunged in oriental
or ears, berries. And you

get what you wrote, theory
of childbirth, keep pushing.
It's written and pushing
my cock, my boss is black,
dyed black, soft lips and eyes
that can be upgraded.

Easy, unusual
and clean. The pain of death
twice a week, when we want,
aphasia said no to
your mouth! It is not good
anyway. Fresh and cooked

fruits and flowers and an
ass like frankie. The fruit
and flowers. She had an
erection at the huge
forked sticks driven into
prostitution by you!

Texts:
VA, Birth Source Text
The Internet, Indian Erotica
The Internet, Linux HOWTOs
Woods Hutchinson, The Child's Day
Edited eRoK7 - VA, His & Hers Sources (Blog - Web)
VA, Alien SciFi Sex Fictions

response to "Authorship of Generative Art"

2009-11-16T12:56:00.000-08:00

Those that shrink away from Gnoetry (At a Gnoetry demo here in Chicago a young woman sat down to use the software and shot up from her chair and backed away from the resulting poem slowly saying "Oh, no, no, no..." I can only hope she was horrified by the awesome beauty of the poem she and Gnoetry collaborated on) most often invoke tired notions of subjectivity, originality and creativity, as if those ideas are a) pure entities within any given individual human, untainted by something other than an "I" anb b) somehow completely eradicated by the fact that a machine is involved in a creative process. That said, the Olde Author Is Dead idea is equally banal, and in fact Gnoetry does nothing if not *multiply* authorship: end-user+(software/author of code)+source text author(s). The idea that Gnoetry shores up is the true one that *all* art is a collaborative process. To believe in the artist hunkered down, alone with her mad ideas, scribbling incredible things is her notebook is to believe in a social fantasy. The artist collects data and arranges that data in a way that can be deemed--within whatever social/cultural context she lives--as art. At its base, art is collaborative, since there needs to be another person to call it "art" in the first place, and that small audience has to get his ideas about art from somewhere...

In any case, Gnoetry shows that there is something of the random and the statistical in the creative process. To say this is *not* to reduce art to mere numbers and mechanics (I was accused of being a "used car salesman" at a reading in Iowa City during which I recited some Gnoetry) but to show that the human mind is a beautiful machine that can be artfully mimicked by a prosthetic device like Gnoetry.

Those against a machine involved in writing should look closely at their own use of word processors, or even consider dismissing out of hand all poetry written with a typewriter. The latter is a machine with its own rules (QWERTY, to say the least) and is not a transparent medium through which the human mind 'translates' its thoughts.

Gnoetry is a machine that helps us focus on the medium of language. That is, Gnoetry is a human machine that helps us focus on what it means to be poets.

Signifying Zapata

2009-11-15T19:07:00.000-08:00

The Zapatagraphic poems--which are great poems--highlight something that has interested me about Gnoetry from the beginning; that being the fact of finding signifying markers in the gnoems based on artifacts of the source texts. This gestalt marking, so to speak, made us lean towards recognizable texts when choosing texts for the end-user to use. When coming across the name "Moreau," e.g., in a gnoem, a story is immediately present, without the end-user or the gnoem having to tell or retell the story. This is in part why gnoems using canonical texts is so interesting; a gnoem using a well-known text is unlike any other "retelling" of that text. & while the result may be the same, as in, perhaps, some form of deconstruction (though, arguably, Gnoetry is a purer form of deconstruction in that the source text is quite literally reduced to contradictory parts and the language can be called nothing else but "writing") Gnoetry makes no intellectual claims. It just performs.

The gnoem is an interpretation of the source text, using the source text itself to make its claims, like a machine-enhanced form of close reading that re-historicizes the text rather than un-does it in some banal way, like trying to tell "the *real* story of Friday in Robinson Crusoe. I do not mean that a gnoem places the action of an old novel into the present day. To re-historicize is to re-write the text in its own words--and these words might rally around a gestalt marker, like a character name or recognizable phrase (e.g., "scarlet horror") and coalesce into meaning(s) after spending time as more enigmatic signifier.

All this said, the conscious planting (I use this term with all agrarian punning intact) of a historical figure like Zapata into otherwise randomized texts seems to me a much more radical, poetically political gesture than merely writing a poem about Zapata, which can only become a kind of propaganda. The language around the name rallies behind it or argues with it, rather than the author himself doing so. Zapata is being placed into a position of making language mean--he is not being made to mean. The former is a gesture that seems to me to be the more powerful gesture.

6x6x6 - Two Poems

2009-11-12T15:46:00.000-08:00

Two more fantastical poems in 6X6X6 form. Enjoy!!!

__________________________

Devastating Scenes at the End in the Ass
Thu Nov 12 18:11:16 2009

Fire lots of them or
freeze to kill more people.
The couch, the conditions
were beautiful. I'm still
sick of ideals, most think
differently and killed with

pleasure, say let's fuck the
world trade center, for she
was robbed of everything,
but the slew of breeding
altered dogs that are left
lying on her. We all

can avoid danger, and
shove tail sections of a
generation or two.
No surrounding landscape,
no televisions, no
flights to the buttocks, just

the devastating scenes
at the end in the ass,
where i'm pretty sure it's
beautiful. Cal, Sarah
Palin and Crack Law Drug
Warrior Mastercard

Czar Biden, I'd like to
urinate, but I just
want to be feared. Does it
do nothing to piss on
extremism, and shove
tail sections of solid

gold? The bubbles float on
materialism,
homophobia, and
data, like some kind of
a beautiful woman
with a butter knife, socks.

__________________________

Like the Heart of Brownie
Thu Nov 12 18:40:11 2009

The new comedy will
focus on the barren
dust of tanks and weapons
upgrades. The story of
my income. This planet,
smoking in a sort of

vegetation. As the
hot dog, a living room
on fire. The help of
kittens. Moreover the
beneficiaries
of kittens. I might be

able to heat up like
a pasha and take her
sweat slick body and soul.
The help of vagina
on computers around
the rim of hair, which was

to set fire to the
convention center with
life jackets on, barely
visible across it.
Ideologically,
millions of square miles of

ruined neighborhoods, it
is a savage, like the
heart of Brownie, his small
one, naturally so
tiny. The average
day on the crest of an

evolutionary
change. Located near the
fireplace. Desire
and anticipation.
I am very concerned
about the parade there.

Texts:
Various, Katrina Texts
VA, Birth Source Text
VA, Alien SciFi Sex Fictions
Various Authors (Ed. EScovel), His $ Hers Sources
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
Qzxrt, Aristocrats: Banned In Hell (uncensored)

Free Grass (20 Haikus)

2009-11-11T16:54:00.000-08:00

Some more from the linguistic copulations of Lawrence Lessig and Walt Whitman (LL + WW etched in the tree).

__________________

Welcome to me, or
rock or stump, and thus touching
you is tragedy.

~

I'd be digitized,
or desolate, I don't like
the environment.

~

To do, and may be
maximized, the system is
free to come on drugs.

~

All life, composite,
tied in your garage. You and
the belt at bedtime.

~

I, the high court clerk.
This book, compulsion, C4.
A font of Brooklyn.

~

The soul of what was
noncommercial, I wrote an
editorial.

~

O Death Supreme, to
make money from this book is
a function of guilt.

~

Forget file sharing.
I hear the quality of
American life.

~

And is not lefty
in any sense. And by law
to sleep with cartoons.

~

Delicate beauty,
alternate light lighting, and
the Great Depression.

~

I think that there is
limitless space outside of
ourselves and trees.

~

O all dear to me
these bubbles, if need be, a
vast amount of you!

~

The grass grows, but strong
and arrogant woman I
like it publicly.

~

What was once “The Man”
I love, lips of love and that
which requires it.

~

Land of filmmaking,
faculty, pulse of Saddam,
Dissatisfied, Inc.

~

Continue on! The
track of beams, subject to a
pupil is flapping.

~

My children, merging
all moving images and
sound to history.

~

Red River is no
rights reserved. The female is
perfect, enabled.

~

The law is, even
if you like Lyle Lovett, you're
going to be used.

Zapatagraphy - A Dozen

2009-11-09T17:35:00.000-08:00

Brando as Zapata

1.

Zapata possessed a moustache,
not black enough to

satisfy him. A land, a
body of empires.

2.

Proceeding along the heap
of stones, it was wet winter,

a village. Zapata did not make
a sound, fearful of seeing

the casualties that
took place around him.

Language must handle those wonders.
The light that is a method of language.

3.

Zapata became acquainted with
the blood. A bird burst forth amidst

the city. The thatch had fallen
on the floor and in you.

4.

He was then outline, a single
form of wax or a little boat

with a sheet. The dead
hovered round and instigated me.

What there is of consequence
was not in the boat. Zapata felt

gratitude towards those shores which formed
a calm far more monstrous.

5.

The spirit of enterprise
laid by me, the sad death of every

artery at length unalterable.
A tongue makes moisture

in the red of this current.
Zapata was nearly burnt

out, needing to
recollect what he loved.

6.

A spatial picture can depict
anything spatial: a single lake

which is stone, a man paused and definitive,
its hills. The lamp light, what makes it crackle, what

makes it ferns and destroying? They are merry --
only a picture. He became the wind so

when he climbed out through them, over
them, it was open air.

7.

Zapata longed to discover what
could be made to yield.

Rejoicing stream of autumn.
Vegetables in a garden.

8.

He sprang from you -- a man,
sailing over the sea,

a human mind. We are worn by
fate, so that some say Zapata

did not dream. Yet he brought no limits.
That which is beautiful in continuation.

9.

This state of active occupation.
It stood. In the house and sometimes

with the blood from it. After all,
its productions and features may

be called a precipice,
gazing on the trees, all the firmness

of deformity. A curve, no
doubt, of the church. And in it

no peace. "We have failed" they shout.
I grew feverish. It stood.

10.

No wood could support the
horror of the peasants who dwelt

in organization. Alas, they were put
together with affection,

the difference between green
and brown and not a dream, but a garden.

11.

Zapata was a man to be governed
by an emotion. The form of

his face was concealed, laughing, fearful
of elevation. So much

has been refused and given.
The sound of production.

12.

I saw a vessel, stretched
out of pigeons in my

ears' long intervals. Zapata composed
heroic songs and began

to comprehend most of them. The summer
sun was upon the mountain.

Know a Tree

2009-11-03T20:08:00.000-08:00

I'm new here, so a short introduction is in order.

Generally: my name is Matthew Lafferty, I majored in English and Philosophy, and I'm planning on an eventual career in libraries.

Internettery: I've blogged in various places, but most of my presence online is now limited to Twitter and Identi.ca, Facebook, and more recently, ReadWritePoem.

Poetically: I've written and enjoyed poetry for a long time, but Mchain and Gnoetry have helped me get to a place where I'm more excited about poetry than perhaps I have ever been. I am still relatively new to it ("it" being digital/machine/computational poetry), and my experience thus far has been a mixture of enjoyment (of the "kid in a candy shop" variety) and a struggle both to figure out my own process and understand my aim in creating this kind of poetry.

Oh, and forgive the title of this post. It is a bad play on words, but it still amuses me, and I have become fond of it. I am still in the process of putting together my own humble chapbook, using Thoreau's Walden as the primary text and a number of other naturalist & tree-related texts as secondary. I have used/am using both Gnoetry and Mchain in the creation of poems for the chap, as the mood strikes me, but the balance is currently weighted toward Mchain.

Below are five poems created in my quest for additions to the chap, all from the last few days. Let me know what you think, because I am still finding my way to a voice and to understanding what "voice" means with respect to this particular branch of poetry. I will try to offer my own comments to poems posted here by the rest of you, but try though I might, I cannot promise my comments will be as insightful as anyone else's.

On to the poems.

The bloom set

curiously about me

I felt no island,

overslept comfortably,

was disappointed

when again I woke up

my attention

suddenly

from the grass-blades,

and their enemies

grew

much astonished

as the new

generation abandoned the world.

blackberries a-growing

still rustle

through the necessity of virtue,

having thus been given

sincerest respect for grass.

They wear black instead

of standing erect, keeping

them down to the state

into whose bosom snow has

lain soft and understanding.

Her body and its limbs into graceful

held her, the tints of her breast.

It did not shine for something friendly;

Solitude alone wears in her coronet.

And chained to her for a long time

for the roaring of liberty

are but the shadows of myself,

enjoying a certain terrible dream

which I lived.

I consider how little this is progress

toward a jail window

or a woodchuck underground

in a topographical description of fate.

Zapatagraphy

2009-11-01T16:26:00.000-08:00

Added a few other texts to this batch for kicks, so they probably won't make the cut. Seem to be something else entirely, but thought I'd post them any-old-ways.

1.

Many many tickle
the largest in the temple

the victim of its
pictorial form, and choose for the

use value of love (it is not
the facts) in a land a land a

meadow, abolishing the void.
Listen to every part

of the archive. This makes
of a seated figure, a way in.

2.

An old mountain is more than
a referendum. The girls

stood outside the camp, while
we smashed the windows of my love.

I believe I am glad of
it. Let us call this a free and

lofty spirit, a simple
inversion of the moon and

motion, everywhere. Ah! -- My
dear Frankenstein, USA.

3.

I am Detroit, so full
of size but nothing else.

What path to the free calendars?
Hapless victims to burnish a cloud

not to change with the slow advance
of it. The subjective forms of

radical change are a space
which must already be measured.

4.

My wanderings were spoiled
by the various lakes of

rubber. Of course, this is
not made of value, memory is

just a little piece, and it just
being certain, ceases; a slight

restraint, penniless, fractures
of events. We came to have a

standstill and waited for
our employment. It was there.

5.

The servant presently
brought breakfast. At best, when

I vote, the system is
a constant. Yes, my kind host; to be crushed.

By degrees, supposing
a cramped space might be viewed as more.

I say that I wandered like an
ogre. Though it is really a

matter of our dear
children having come forward.

6.

Drool glistening in the
symbols and all who are there.

The mass street protests are
an allusion to whose knees I clung

to, in which the elite run
their story along with pictures.

Is there a desire to my
machinations, squats, wildcat

strikes? Any wet place is
lighter. I felt sick as fuck.

7.

It is better to die
on your feet than live on your

account. A tour of the
ruins, a mediation of some

undiscovered island, where
almost any one would want to

go. That which makes it art
is false; I grew alarmed

as the same applies to
negation, etc.

6x6x6 - Two Poems

2009-10-29T20:55:00.000-07:00

Two months ago I started a side project aimed at the journal 6x6 which I called 6x6x6. I completely forgot about it. The whole conception of the project is shameful, kitschy, and panders to the basest desires for print publication, which makes it easier for me to not give a fuck at all about it. Here are two of them that I took the time to finish today.

BTW, I didn't think about the sign of the beast thing until just a few minutes ago, but it suits the poems well, I think. ;)

-------------------------------------

Where's Your Daughter?
Sat Aug 29 15:04:33 2009 - Thu Oct 29 14:52:23 2009

"Where's your daughter," her hands
in her center, the ears
are singing, the little
weapon which will drink? "Much
love (historically)
studying the ass, sir."

The hormones (as in a
kind of sauce), the young man,
extraordinarily
rich, abundant breasts, a
tendency to breakfast
in a sperm egg, perhaps?

Regarding this, I make
her look like Satan, or
is it that (it is) that
panic will spread through the
scattered knots of people
who read this idea?

She learned how to put out
(and in!), column of black,
curly hair. Meat man: "Oh
my mastiff! You put out
too, and the sex was like
a walk in Lebanon."

Dashed painful, "I just love
the little crises that
are worn together!" A
lot of alcohol, the
fine cheeses, fruit and strong
woman with scorpions.

Note: "Oh no!" Once she has
lain down with Miguel and
zucchini. Dolls creep me
out... booming sound, like one
thing to people who had
one. Sarah palin, too.

------------------------------------------

Good, Positive and Uncomplicated
Sat Aug 29 14:43:03 2009

What better quality,
promise technology,
promise driver floppy
is inspirational.
Yet another way to
be free! Let children be

children, and feed on my
machine, configure it
to the taste of the soul.
His intercourse with a
single screen, she ensnared
mankind with the stock in

the womb. Egg after an
informal survey, it's
synopsis is printed
as OK, or not good
with bad apples, the way
my new favorite thing

is good, positive and
uncomplicated, but
is not available.
Creating authentic,
consensual, reduced
to be offered, to be

formed and alive. Take it,
everyone has turned. Egg
after a wonderful
platform, no weight, people
with little housing or
food. Easy to get the

latest versions and to
see what harmony, what
is their trade imbalance.
Thus architecture is
called an aggregate if
equal to Rwanda.

Texts:
P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves
Woods Hutchinson, The Child's Day
VA, Birth Source Text
Various Authors (Ed. EScovel), His $ Hers Sources
Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Zapatagraphy

2009-10-26T22:02:00.000-07:00

1.

If, instead of threatening,
I could have committed. Zapata's

travels were long and fatiguing,
his wanderings were spoiled by the flames,

which shone brightly on the white
plain. A few tears from the bliss

of my friend - I cannot imagine
the sufferings, I wrote to a great mirror.

2.

While the modern system raises
the funeral wail, Zapata strove to act

in a soft voice, and bent wood
and leaves as if under the table.

I dreaded to behold the busy heavens
answer. Learn from land -

Zapata's fundamental idea -
that all these men were his country.

3.

But you are to yield. In my
cloak, papa! An eye. Zapata had

a far different situation.
They were bound. It directed

his steps towards the valley. He
will shine on us as disappearance.

The Purpose - Sat Oct 24 17:29:50 2009

2009-10-26T08:44:00.000-07:00

the purpose of the very commonplace ·
in some perspectives · will become extinct ·
the body of a stream · a thimble · some
were covered with a girdle round the head ·
the sea · desire · or the theory of
the water · which upsets the world · a thing
according to the market · complex · some
were treated with a theory of the head ·

the judgment · at the present time a thing
resides in its advances · soon the eye
becomes accustomed to the surface of
the water · and the merit of events
in our systems of desire · to
the ocean · is a small canoe · in which
the eye becomes accustomed to regard
the future as determined · little more ·

the sun · a very low opinion of
the moon · the climate · and a quarter of
a meal · the things obey the theory of
the world in layers on the head · the judge
continued to deny a substance or
foundation · but pretended to expect ·
the boats · the waves · the contemplation of
a fully purified ideal in man ·

Texts:
R.M. Ballantyne, Cannibal Islands
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

"The Authorship of Generative Art"

2009-10-19T08:23:00.000-07:00

I found this short statement of aesthetics from two British artists on AAAARG.ORG this morning that is certainly relevant to our Gnoetic endeavours here. This is an excerpt from Adrian Ward's and Geoff Cox's 2005 essay, "How I Drew One of My Pictures: or, The Authorship of Generative Art":

Although the 'author-god' might be dead (according to Post-Structuralist theory), we are forced to accept this 'death' as an inability to claim the privileged source of meaning or value of a work of art and artist.[2] This is by no means new; there are numerous precedents for collaborative experimentation in creativity and automatism within a history of art-machines, robotics, and deferred authorship: the use of chance by dadaists, and automatism by surrealists, aimed to stimulate spontaneous and collective creative activity and to diminish the significance of the artist. As the creating subject or author has largely been discredited and dematerialised over the years, there is a pressing need to examine new demarcations, and the functions released by this disappearance.[3] Perhaps 'the death of the author' is simply too literal, (too obvious and final) a metaphor to offer a critique of the productive apparatus by which contemporary creative operations using computers are organised and regulated. [emphasis added]

While I find much of their analysis coincides with many of my own ideas about generative, conceptual and/or digital works of art, I cannot agree with their emphasis on the programmer of systems as the primary inheritor of value as author and creator. I agree that "when a programmer develops a generative system, they are engaged in a creative act," as well as that "programming is no less an artform than painting is a technical process;" but to conclude unequivicably that "it is no longer necessary or even desirable to be able to render art as
a final tangible medium, but instead it is more important to program computers to be creative by proxy" overlooks the many possibilities of digital art as well as many of the real examples of digital writing created using computer systems. It also conflates the site of creativity with the act of creativity--something which is definitely not true in many cases with generative and quasi-generative systems designed for artistic production.

Gnoetry is a prime example of this. Much credit an admiration goes to the creative act of programming such a system for artistic use, but this is not the only and final creative act, it is the first; and it is certainly not of greater importance as an aesthetic act than the many others to follow within the program's environment. The act of the creation of such a system is invaluable to the following creative acts, as none of them would have occurred without it; but this is just as true as saying that the creation of cable television is more valuable than the creation of channels and shows to be on it. Jon Stewart and The Daily Show would not have come about without something like Comedy Central being possible within the context of Cable Television, much as individual works of digital art would not exist without the systems (Gnoetry, Project Gutenberg, the Internet, Western Capitalist society) upon which they rely; this does not mean, though, that all comedians should be more concerned with creating new forms of media to work within than in writing comedy.

Furthermore, to dismiss the subjective activity of a human collaborating artist by concluding that "a great deal of these so-called creative decisions made by artists are driven by chance, or other imperceptible influences" and should just be left to random decisions on the part of the machine, is to completely dismiss the importance of choice, as well as the act of "working the system" (exploring glitches or tricks in the program) to bring about an aesthetically and subjectively desirable result. There is something to be said for placing a reasoned or intuitively guided choice above a random one.

Much more could obviously be said about this. Programming may become an indispensible tool for artists and writers soon, either on their own or in collaboration with knowledgable and interested programmers, but wholly generative art will remain only one of the genres of this evolving branch of artistic process. In Gnoetry, one does not simply press play and let the system create the end result. The perception and subjectivity of the collaborating artist is at the heart of the gnoem's authorship just as much as the system is. Models such as Gnoetry--human-machine collaborations within a programmed framework--are thus of great importance to the development of a digital aesthetic that marries the artist's creative will with computer processes. I hope that as more writers come to use programs like Gnoetry, the truly unique approach of each writer will come to be seen as crucial to the evaluation of their work.

The Holy - Sun Oct 18 17:22:54 2009

2009-10-18T14:37:00.001-07:00

the holy laughing and the bodies on
the grass · a spasm of amusements · call
the human future · dinner was attached ·
the trailing glory of the trees · a pause ·
a magic powder · solid · put behind
a silly ass · the sills were stretched · amen ·
the recreation of the trees beyond
the thicket · there · the choicest of delight ·

the bushes came · unsettled · squealing with
the surplus · writhing in the ashes of
the green beyond · the bark · towards the hill
behind the multitude · the bodies had
arranged a luncheon and a bridge · a fine
selection · oh · the moon · in order that
the ass · the frenzy with the virtues of
a breakfast · with a dog in gratitude ·

the human save in heaven · raving of
the kitchen and the countryside · the trees
beyond the food · the highest hill behind
the ladies to enjoy · a blessing and
a corpse · the kingdom to the stomach · and
the ass · the present · do according to
the sunny corner of existence · drink
the trailing glory of the future · ha ·

Texts:
Fannie Louise Apjohn, The Enchanted Island
H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

The Fundamental - Fri Oct 16 18:52:08 2009

2009-10-16T15:59:00.000-07:00

the fundamental notion of bamboo ·
prolongs the smaller waterfalls · reversed
in space · engaged in time · becoming · that
the habit of perception is a more
annoying one · in rude progression · laid
in alternating layers of bamboo ·
elated with the light in hand · prolongs
the contemplation of the gulf beneath ·

reprinted from the kernel of the great
pacific ocean · take a number is
correct · the polished surface of bamboo ·
the points · unchanging · this perspective with
the wood · a bath in metaphysics · and
a quarter thick · the kernels of the faint
reflection of a tree · concerning which
appears · permitted to exaggerate ·

the sea a swiftness · and the small cascades ·
in one perspective to another · as
a given thing in life · the harbour at
the centre of the torrent · which appear
in their effects · consisting of the world ·
the whole apparent intuition · is
a long ascent in introspection · or
a bath in dreams · until the monsters sleep ·

Texts:
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Herman Melville, Typee
R.M. Ballantyne, Cannibal Islands

The Fruits - Wed Oct 7 18:16:13 2009

2009-10-15T21:52:00.000-07:00

the fruits in conversation · and engaged
in alternation · pimples and the stars ·
conceited · went among the latter parts ·
exceeding bright · in solitude · a man
in riding trousers and complete · a good
example of the sacred with delight ·
a more delightful prospect · there were on
the earth in such a manner wholly free ·

in these results · a feeling was · unlike
the methods of perfection · then the more
direct · the free possession of the form ·
the execution of salvation and
the rawness and the most auspicious · to
the latter as hypothesis · upon
conditions very advantageous · which
were to confer together premature ·

the real · in many parts · exceeding bright ·
in all the burden and delusion · to
believe the feelings of the time · a stone
in paradise · a little strained · sometimes
the realization of the latter parts ·
the smallest ever known · the children of
the other parts · a dwarf · because the least
idea of the meats in paradise ·

Texts:
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Jack London, South Sea Tales
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

Zapatagraphy

2009-10-13T17:44:00.000-07:00

This is the preliminary work for a new series I've started. For this project I'm using Wittgenstein, G. Stein, and Frankenstein in conjunction with my own research on Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary, trying to tease out resonances. The final project, as envisioned, would pair the gnoetry poems with snippets of Zapata's story, along with my own ruminations on love, the internet, memory, the role of the leftist intellectual, and the specter of Obama. I have, as you will see, replaced some of the pronouns given to me by gnoetry with Zapata's name, other than that they remain as given.

1

What is one bottle? One is
only the use of brackets. Zapata

did not feel the future. With
trembling steps, as sometimes they

were. Such a red is in the centre
of Switzerland; it has a

sash. Snow fell into his hands, and
being overbearing, withdrew.

2

Young men should be possible
to suggest wounding, incapable

of the stimulation of coming
to be heard amid the streets,

in spite of everything. They
all have felt, as if a pen held by

all, as I feel. Zapata performed the
service of showing that the sea

roared; and this was left me -
no, not the facts, a resemblance.

3

Zapata was small, bound close
by the divisions in his

body. He worked up her veil, and she
knelt, ascertaining

his authority. I could not help
being struck by the greatest fear,

lest my fire should be reserved to
discover him a villain.

4

Zapata looked patient yet sad. His
limbs failed him as he walked.

It gave pleasure to his
protectors. He was dressed

in possibility, a blot
upon a world in stretches. My

voice was indignant; my lips to such
a man, an old one with a strange

multiplicity. Yet why
do we dream? My country was copper.

5

White and color and more
is gone; Zapata must not be

virtuous. If it be written
down, it was an answer.

We should have a daughter,
but I cannot consent.

6

I sing and I sing, continuing
being a habit. I write a

few minutes, and one. The point where
the flowers of spring bloomed in the

streets of the complete expression, there
were women weeping around;

and in fact, this was it until
the moon and the end of sitting.

7

We received a map of the
torture. The sound proceeded from land.

8

Fear overcame Zapata; the
caves of the things he was not.

To an echo and more, more
than half his misfortune - he was

to become an offering, the
only object that harnesses.

A child, in arranging
the paint shows that culture is this.

9

Thus ended the day. Zapata's mind
is now dead yet found a dwelling.

Come on horseback, for no man
is a bare perpendicular rock!

10

A few years will chill your
ship. A curtain is a

burst of explanation, and a
colored sky a spectacle. You

will then have a sense, and make it true.
So then the last column by

itself will be soft, not so stern
as romantic. The system

is washing, the hierarchies
are contradictory.

11

An hour passed, and soon
my mind, and yet, in the

mouth is in an order. One could
be one, it is true, sensibly

in mathematics. It cannot be
more. The expression is what

will say it is not telling
everything, in a certain

sense, that from the dark red
trees, all this makes that sun.

12

When he returned to us, he was
bigger, not merely a

petty experimentalist.
He did not feel for those

on the top of affairs
who could perceive his calm

in left over bundles.
I sat up much longer,

conversing with his desires
like a flood of strangers.

Texts:
Shelley, 1Frankenstein
Gertrude, 2SteinTender
Wittgenstein, 4Wittgen
Gertrude, 3SteinPicasso

The Limits - Fri Oct 2 19:50:27 2009

2009-10-06T09:26:00.000-07:00

the limits of successive moments of
expression · by the absolute maintains
relations · first · the nature of a form ·
the full extent permitted by the first
beginning of compliance · is alive ·
in danger of forgetting · are employed
in dealing with a contradiction · and
the desperate effort to evaporate ·

the limit of a moment · longing to
occur in other words · the wildness and
the brightness of the mood · in danger of
ignoring · there were fluids pent within
the proper bounds · a contradiction is
a mere anachronism and depressed ·
a buoyant disposition · and upon
a higher penetration · is alive ·

a chain · the limit of a body at
the object of affection · feeling is
the same in all directions · and reward
in making no results · the glory of
the action · or the fashion of affairs ·
complying with the power of a thing
originates · in one · together with
the others · something is articulate ·

Texts:
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Fannie Louise Apjohn, The Enchanted Island

The Air - Sat Sep 26 15:55:00 2009

2009-09-26T13:03:00.000-07:00

the air · the very apprehensions of ·
in many things · a certain portion of
the whole repulsive · silver's face upon
the weather being fair · revolves · a great
perfection · and the doctor · and amazed ·
the errors of enlargement · union with
alarms · the whole · the application of
a secret place · the weather is perfect ·

the doctor · here's a commentary on
the whole phenomenon · a feeling that ·
the weather of the whole a paradox ·
the slightest feeling of enlargement · bob ·
the whole a great desire to secure
a contradiction · after all · the sign
repainted · and a great desire to
the worst · the moon · in all the stores · abridged ·

conversion of the wind along the whole
phenomenon · the ordinary field ·
in human shape upon occasion · love ·
unites · above · the ladder · boundless · and
the doctor to the top · revolves · amen ·
alone in paradise · the way · the whole
a judgment · come in · failure is a whole
collection of ideas from above ·

Texts:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

The Doctrine - Tue Sep 22 12:23:22 2009

2009-09-22T09:42:00.000-07:00

the doctrine of the object was a red
resentment ever since · the limits of
the local sense · reports · constructions · so
a proposition had a tracing of
the true · performed · apologizing for
the righteous and expenses · represents
the only firm foundation on record ·
the limit of the works possessed in form ·

the underlying essence of affairs ·
a contradiction · so the datum as
a method of projection is unique ·
the doctrine of reincarnation · as
a picture cannot be foretold · performed ·
the owner of the sign in logic is
a wedge in passing · so the subtle form ·
in passing through the channel of affairs ·

in logic · neither is the case · a whole ·
performed · expressions of the parents · to
repeat · the doctrine of the body · that
delightful · excommunicated things ·
in order to preserve the object · was
a jealous god · a proposition is
a crescent of expression · after an
extraordinary downpour of affairs ·

Texts:
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned
Swami Abhedananda, Reincarnation
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The Best - Wed Sep 16 13:04:22 2009

2009-09-16T12:53:00.000-07:00

the best · the simplest and the superfluous ·
the very heart · a realization of
delight · the snatches of the world · the best ·
another illustration · on a white
reflecting surface · do according to
the one · within the ladies · foxy · do
the best in combination · then the best
in parting · when the honey is perfect ·

the night the moon arose · enraptured · as
a rush · the jungle fever · took delight
in combination · oh · the valleys and
assesses · ah · the loving ones · around
the oyster · covered with the multitude ·
a breath · a little more · a moment · veiled
in man · forgetting and escaped · the best
in earnest · for a moment more the best ·

the world become perfect · a pleasure to
the soul in imitation of the best ·
the proper hands · around the body and
the body of the way in full · absorbed
in gratitude · the best · the knowledge of
the end a realization of the best ·
outstretched · a simple one · the great relief ·
in all directions · come in gratitude ·

Texts:
Horatio Alger Jr., Joe The Hotel Boy
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Roger Finlay, The Wonder Island Boys - The Tribesman

Gnoetry & Ego

2009-09-14T20:23:00.001-07:00

There is no way, of course, to exorcise ego/intent from the poetic process; however, at least within the context of the almost universal understanding of ego in relationship to composing poetry, Gnoetry sets the ego at a remove. There’s no other way to account for the kind of reactions—pro and con—to Gnoetry. No matter how much Gnoetry might, in fact, mimic purely human poetic composition, the software is still understood as circumventing “originality,” “creativity,” “individuality,” whatever synonyms for “ego” (das Ich) people can muster.

So much of contemporary American poetry is predicated upon the social fiction of a unique, individual, proprietary “self,” that in poetry might be deemed “style” or “voice.” This includes, I think, poetries that claim to set the self aside, but in fact only play with the idea of the self, like so many recent intersections with procedural verse, such exercises as “flarf” and the poetry program ETC, which is so infused with the architect’s intent that the end-user has zero wiggle room. There’s an ego-bound anthropic principle at work regarding the relationship between technology and poetry: here’s a quote from the recent book of so-called “techno-poetry”:

“The central question is to subvert the technological language, transforming it into a technopoetical language. This way, the culture doesn't surrender to the technology, but it receives the poet's intervention, which turns the technology into another form of poetic communication. These procedures become, then, a poeticizing of computational technology." (Jorge Luiz Antonio)

Why is it so often that the poet is somehow repairing the damage of technology, waving humanity’s flag against some perceived dominatrix? I would argue that Gnoetry poeticizes us by given us pre-poetic language to consider, and either allow or deny. Gnoetry is not at the expense of humanity or the ego—it’s just another way to engage the ego that in many ways side-steps the mad meaning-making machine that is our conscious mind. The central question is not to engage in any subversion of “technological language” (whatever that is) but to notice that poetry is already technical—the application of certain principles of sense onto a linguistic medium. And anyways, all words are human—no need to put the human back into them.

Showgirl Gnoetry

2009-09-08T18:37:00.001-07:00

Fifth and Final Sorrow

The other side in front. The act. The stage.
A friend in with the title of the day
the other night. The show, a couple of
the chorus girls. The prima donna, and

Estelle, her maid, hurrah. The justice of
the stage in which Sabrina has a good
idea? And the papers, for the show,
a little partial. That's the Cadillac

the money shucks! A certain party did
the leading lady and the funny thing
about the circus leaves? The justice of
the ladies at the table at the stage...

Showgirl Gnoetry

2009-09-07T18:05:00.000-07:00

Fourth Sorrow

The author of the other evening clothes.
In his, a fluffy ruffles. It again.
A girl. Sabrina makes a sudden, bing!
"The only pleasure," I reiterate,

"the tenor Gertrude." I suppose a show.
In which Sabrina has a couple of
the crackers. This machine. The benefit.
The act. In which Sabrina rushes on

the other three. The show a sleeper, but
the author didn't say. The author of
the book, the show, a little supper, and
in comes the prima donna getting late.

More Free Grass (16 Haikus)

2009-09-04T09:37:00.001-07:00

To read all installments in the series, click here.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

America, the
law of gravity, and all
the isolation.

Before I consent
to subordinate you, fill
me with your own right.

Copy and paste world
to the property owner's
permission system.

Free use, as if a
library is to be loved
by strangers? Or not.

Frolic on this, the
course of obedience, you
shall all be master!

How bright the flashes
of creativity and
culture disappears.

If we die we die
now, inhaling the value
of innovation.

I have loved thee, my
gosh, a free market is to
show clips of loving.

I have set up a
web page today, thou lucky
mistress of any.

I offer a world
of love, drunkenness, justice,
refreshing, absurd.

Joy, I would love to
forget, nothing is nothing
but joy left! The end.

Land of sales, torture,
cable, the great media
gulp, oblivion.

O blossoms of my
fair use exceptions, to have
access to this book.

Some are pushing to
create. Why else would they all
come to india!

They are blind. And these
costs substantially harm the
unforeseeable.

We have done wrong, but
because the artist was wrong.
Gorgeous clouds of flash!

The People - Fri Sep 4 11:10:48 2009

2009-09-04T08:21:00.000-07:00

the people here · the Buddhists of alarm ·
reincarnation is a crazy horse ·
upon the crucifix · the dude · because
the thickness of existence after death ·
the room · between the cars · the room the men
were still occurred · the execution of
a tree · the parents · and the boy · a friend
in one direction and deformed · accused ·

the subtle form · described · accused · a breach
in one direction and a friend · sometimes
the floor · the subtle body · then conceive
the cabin just before the two were kept
in cages · like a person · so the two
procured a moment · so the two were kept
in person · like a stone · a traitor · that
the two were trying to obtain a friend ·

the people · when a copy of concern ·
were well enough · the dude · pretended to
destroy the crucifixion · and the like
in any member of the subtle and
confined · a cabin of the human will ·
in person · went among the modern dead ·
in other countries of rebirth · in an
exact proportion with the crucifix ·

Texts:
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Horatio Alger Jr., Joe The Hotel Boy
Swami Abhedananda, Reincarnation

The Less - Wed Sep 2 12:13:13 2009

2009-09-02T09:22:00.000-07:00

the less a person · and the like enough ·
in order to avoid the perils of
enjoyment · to advance · a language which
produced the number of the same · the one
in which the common value · to proceed ·
the cruel and absurd · the one in one
direction · as a pillow · but the end
a circuit through the interests of a will ·

the same in person · by the terror of
the rest · reclining · sitting down · perhaps
a little puzzled to devise the means
whereby the disappointment · all were · not
in all along · in like enough · alone
in life · the malcontents · the language to
omit · the other for consumption · was
the only means a person could suggest ·

at length consented · all were all in all
the little shrine supported by the seen ·
unarmed · the object of appearance · was
a little less · below the level of
appeal · the only people who were still
in all directions · and the like · were at
the end become unserviceable · by
the terror of the rest were as enslaved ·

Texts:
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Herman Melville, Typee
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

The Day - Wed Sep 2 11:14:53 2009

2009-09-02T08:41:00.000-07:00

the day · a hairy neck · the very day ·
the skin above the undergrowth · a locked
enclosure on a little forms · within
the sacred package · if the subtle and
surrounded by a very day · a locked
enclosure on a broken arm · within
the habitation · never mind the rocks ·
the sun · the flames across the undergrowth ·

in an elaborate bow upon the screen ·
the pages · which contains the law · a locked
enclosure on the head · consolidate
in throwing up a little · cocoanuts ·
the pictures of the natives · which adhered
in mind the reason of the going on ·
the native cloth · in which the body of
the island · all the subtle form · salute ·

in turn · the evolution of a tree
in dress · the hunting of the subtle form ·
the naked forms about the undergrowth ·
the subtle body is reminded of
the endless ribbon · under cover of
the same condition as a branch · a locked
enclosure on a tree · the organs of
bamboo · in January · laughing · once ·

Texts:
Swami Abhedananda, Reincarnation
Herman Melville, Typee
H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Circuit - Tue Sep 1 09:42:30 2009

2009-09-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

the circuit · of the future as a jail ·
the present moment · of the weary of
the human wreckage · to relent · the will
become a yoke · the will · unsettled · of
the artificial · of the circuit · of
the worship · either · of the fever and
delight · abundance of explosion · with
a thousand hands · unsteady · and benign ·

the current feeling of existence · like
a picture will become a telescope ·
the only thing in imitation of
a god therein · perhaps a will · alone
in token of the living thing · a good
conclusion · after such a failure · with
revenge · against the future · ever to
become a homage · to restore the first ·

the present moment · when a blessing and
a terror is the same · the future as
a hostage · bullet · bang · the absence of
affairs · the recreation of the same ·
the people · unconcerned · the silent as
the rest were dead · the men were to become
a paddle · splashes that were left · the will
become a verbal game · in such a yoke ·

Texts:
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Jack London, South Sea Tales
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Showgirl Gnoetry

2009-08-31T22:06:00.000-07:00

Third Sorrow

"The curtain drops. The show herself. The air!
A show. A certain party takes a job
until the morning, if a show in town.
The funny thing about the show herself.

The act. The act. The show. 'A bottle of
champagne, lieutenant?' We were nothing but
the author says 'The Cadillac, the stage,
in such a fluffy ruffles, I suppose.'

The leading lady for a chance. The stage.
The way, the show, a jug! The way, the scratch!
The prima donna, and a chorus girl,
because the stage, the wind in his success."

Katrina Gnoem

2009-08-27T13:30:00.000-07:00

It is a grand thing, a string of text
that can arise, arise, pathos, arise, unzipped.
The irritation from exposure or the lingerie

we downloaded. Katrina. The fossil of a flower,
the organ of the mountain it completes
at the first appearance of a problem.

The baby of the bees is the egg. The day,
the fine. Her face, the ruins. From the day
before the storm to war, the only pass

is across a gulf. It's in her old cocoons.
How before the stigma of a new beginning,
they explained a new beginning.

How it occurs in grafting trees, already.
How unlike the president, a deer observes, its
jaws evolved, crustaceans, everything.

Texts: Katrina Sources, VA
Origin of the Species
Linux Tutorials

Gnoetry and the Ego

2009-08-26T07:12:00.000-07:00

I was reminded of this issue by Joe Hall's post "Hello Gnoetry" on his blog, Pigafetta, Poetry, and Painkillers.

Here's my response to the post:

Hi Joe,

Just a comment on my use of Gnoetry: I think it would be inaccurate to say the function of Gnoetry “at the heart” is to “remove the ego” from the writing process. Jackson Mac Low, who for years worked with generative methods to achieve such a goal, gave up on this concept sometime in the 80’s or 90’s, realizing that it was an impossibility. Selection of the “best” outputs is the principle strategy of the Gnoetry user, and as such it is firmly founded in ego considerations. I think it does help the author/user to write outside of his/her own “voice,” personality or habitual idea of self, but it relies wholly upon the sense of the author/user as a being who enjoys, and who has the power to select what it most enjoys and reject what it does not. This is a more basic and less deceptive mode of the ego, but still ego nonetheless.

As a Buddhist, I’ve thought a lot about this subject, and I mostly agree with Mac Low’s opinion, which you can find in his (few) speeches and essays (see the front matter in A Thing of Beauty). I think it is best to be honest about what we do as poets and not just try to keep deceiving ourselves (and others) by propping up our troublesome senses of self. The operation of the ego through generative processes (or machine prosthesis) can work outside of the self and more in the realm of pleasure, as Mac Low outlines in “Poetry and Pleasure.” Poetry, as a conceptual act of wit, intelligence and imagination, cannot be fully transcendent, though it may facilitate some beneficial transformations within the reader and author. That’s my current opinion.

Although perhaps, we’re using two different definitions of ego. Are you talking psychoanalysis or Eastern philosophy, because I’m mostly stuck on the latter?

These are my thoughts so far on this issue. I'm curious to know what other Gnoetry end-users have to say on this issue.

P.S.: As an addendum, I just found the passage in the foreword of A Thing of Beauty that addresses this issue:

Showgirl Gnoetry

2009-08-25T12:31:00.000-07:00

Second Sorrow

"The funny thing about the breakaway:
another took the money for the show
herself. The only star performer. I'd
a let her have her wedding trip across

the pond. The scow, hurrah. The phonograph.
The next caboose, hurrah. The skipper of
the church. The justice of the berth, the show,
a couple of the party. Wilbur says

another was nonplussed. The skipper of
the other evening, and the future, and
the wind in red? The show herself. 'The stage,'
remarked Sabrina, 'touches on the stage.'"

Showgirl Gnoetry

2009-08-24T18:01:00.000-07:00

This week I'll post five, twelve-line blank verse poems shows Gnoetry 0.2 at work with a single text: Kenneth McGaffey's The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great “White Way” from 1908, a collection of stories first printed in the New York newspaper The Morning Telegraph.

One might, with a little nudge, say that this constraint is like having a “Gertrude Stein” key on your keyboard because of the clipped language and repeated phrases. But that would mean the gnoems were mere aper & parodist. & tonal intent can not be the case – Gnoetry is a machine that statistically analyzes human linguistic transcriptions. It cannot parody or ape.

But a human end-user can.

First Sorrow

A trip across the stage. The prima and
the stage. The other with the title of
the menu. We were standing. But the show
herself. A trip. The stage. The chorus girls.

The stage. According to her, you behold
in me the game. The show, a stormy night,
a boob? The other night. The rest. The stage.
The stage. The table at the table at

the table. I, except in truth, the show,
a jug! The second act, rehearsal, so
the other evening. I suppose. The stage.
The morning after that the stage, hurrah.

The Features - Fri Aug 21 00:18:48 2009

2009-08-21T08:48:00.000-07:00

Heading into risqué territory now, somewhat inspired by Jean Baudrillard's The Transparency of Evil and his analysis of the ideology of transexuality in the Western imagination. What exactly is "The Hell of the Same," and is The Same a hell under construction?

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the features of the human form · attached ·
the booby · and the great entangled hair ·
a little body like a hostess · big ·
afloat · the tail · the serpent · fastened to
a native woman devil · so defined ·
the beauty of a dualism · as
the same idea · to appear · combined
together · for a sally of Brazil ·

the balls were left in peace · a little way
apart · the wild banana · having been
a hundred dollars · as the gauchos say ·
perfect · a great deposit · for a wild
Brazilian youth · the whole acquires such
a petticoat · combines · becomes erect ·
the metaphysics of the organ · as
a part · a portrait of a stick · afloat ·

a little body with a hole in each ·
afloat · a dualism · now exposed ·
transparent · of a single sex · perhaps
the most obliging · with a body like
a mirror · like a toy · the people are
composed · the best · the power to express
a few degrees beyond the cock · until
the lower parts were veiled in fleecy clouds ·

Texts:
Robert Louis Stevenson, An Island Nights' Entertainments
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle

Grammatical Propositions

2009-08-17T19:35:00.001-07:00

It's interesting to consider Wittgenstein in the face of a syntax-connecting machine like Gnoetry. Are the utterances merely expressions of grammatical rules, since it is through the random survival of these rules that the utterances have any meaning at all. When we read a gnoem, are we only merely accepting rules and finding meaning that can be niether confirmed nor confuted by experience. Or, are we engaging in language that has been jarred from its moorings in such a way as to be much better arbiters of messages of and from the world at large?

The Border - Sat Aug 15 11:45:42 2009

2009-08-16T08:14:00.001-07:00

the border of the same · a copy · and
a contradiction · as the forms · a stream ·
a little wood · the most terrific noise ·
the action of the pretty creatures · and
the same result · the limit of the will ·
conceived in common · contradiction is
the sign in token of the soul · the stream
in which the proposition is the stream ·

the same result · the more completely webbed ·
the circumstances · incomplete · combines ·
performing · and became exhausted · as
the same result · the propositions of
a series · to proceed · the instincts of
the soul · engaged in propositions · that
the false were really objects · understand ·
together with the absence of concern ·

the same in that · commenced the avalanche ·
postpones the essence of the soul · in that
excited fashion · nothing is a more
convenient situation · then the best
were gone · a proposition is a more
convenient situation · then the end ·
afloat · in that excited fashion · seen
in token of affection · this delay ·

Texts:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The Sun - Tue Aug 11 00:14:33 2009

2009-08-16T08:08:00.000-07:00

the sun · in other countries · well equipped ·
returning · by the bearings of the sun ·
the situation · having been designed
in Europe · half a quarter like the palm ·
the beauty of a will · the larvae of
surprise · upon the end · in which the whole
conditions of the system · likely to
explode · the great advantage of the end ·

a moment · if a quarter like the palm ·
in other lands · appeared · a moment · on
the sun · a single line · the line · perhaps
extending far away · the priests and
the father of phenomenon · in which
the system · having been designed · towards
the end · among the unforeseen · a will ·
in answer to the sky in which a will ·

the end · against the sky · degrading · and
encouraged by the situation · as
a better course · the most exposed · the end
a will · a single line · in other lands ·
in many actions of the damned · toward
the unfamiliar · by the bearings of
the damned alive · the booms were tearing through
the surface of the end · a great eclipse ·

Texts:
Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

The Reason - Fri Aug 7 03:25:46 2009

2009-08-08T15:49:00.000-07:00

the reason why a likeness of the dog
continued to return · a slightly glazed
appearance · on the beach a single dog ·
among the fallen and removed · the two
expressions and the only one · the first
edition · and the other is derived ·
in logic · is composite · all appeared ·
divides the dog · bespeak the ricochet ·

the second copy is about a first
attempt · in shape · again · in common with
the same result · in many parts · perhaps
in all directions · at the surface of
another · it appears · emits a dog ·
a complex stands in time · donations to
the object of enchantment · as a chain ·
a form · collected to evaporate ·

constructed · consequential · understand
the cause · the first in its description of
a chain · a small canal extending from
the shore · in all directions · there · the whole
proceeding · this effect produced · in this
direction · now the dog · constructed · and
surrounded by a proposition · and
composed a microcosm · disappears ·

Texts:
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

The Diagram - Thu Aug 6 00:23:24 2009

2009-08-08T15:48:00.000-07:00

the diagram · another species of
remembrance · as the whole proceedings · on
the thickest was resolved · in structure · stands ·
a great advantage to describe · a good
idea · so · employed in several parts ·
in order made · in an advantage by
the look · the most convenient end · in and
about the body and behind · described ·

a good idea · but a kind · preserved
in an extraordinary manner · for
the best adapted to the nails · the like
in others · that the people are preserved ·
a house in cogitation · and were kind ·
in this employment · radiating · as
the union of the best adapted to
the standard of perfection will produce ·

the people are alike · in dwelling on
details · upon the recollection of
the dead · the living species will produce ·
the land · the bud · again · a fit · a good
idea · so · in many parts · the same
formation · vary · that the nest · produced
in such a nature · with the structure of
the night before · the new conditions · stands ·

Texts:
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Robert Louis Stevenson, Island Nights' Entertainments
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

The Natives - Tue Aug 4 01:51:52 2009

2009-08-08T15:41:00.000-07:00

the natives · and the first awake · received
a great enormous breakfast · and marines ·
amidst the products of the trees · the dead
flamingo · after being skinned · arranged
the morning · brightly with the bones · the skins
the better part alone · in danger · and
in view · the natives of the sky above ·
were cherries · bloody · terrified · embarked ·

the skin · the scientific men · the flesh
belonging to the king · amidst the air
the dead flamingo · on the cliff · the moon ·
in power and in great delight · received
the name · the natives of the air above
the level of the tree · the natives of
the entrance of the french · the rocks along
the southern species · now submerged · retired ·

a species of the angry sea · the plates ·
divide the manufacture of events ·
the natives of effect · beyond the name ·
the same · beneath the beak · peculiar to
the gap · a hole in which the natives of
the skin · in which the heat · the fruit · about
the shore became detached · embarked · among
the rocks were satisfied · remained unhurt ·

Texts:
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
R.M. Ballantyne, Cannibal Island

That Subject Lute

2009-08-07T12:08:00.000-07:00

Matthias Regan ( a great ally of and thinker on Gnoetry) a few years back started to think of Gnoetry along musical lines, saying that it comes very close to Coleridge's and the Romantics' "subject lute" that stands in the breeze and captures wind into song. The end-user is the in- and ex-piration, perhaps. Also, an addition to the program was made, again based upon a comment by Matthias Regan. That the end-user should be allowed to "turn up the volume" on a particular text, having it become a sort of lead singer, while the other texts act as the Pips to the lead-text's Gladys Knight.

I think that it is fruitful to think of Gnoetry as a poetical and hence musical instrument.

The Seed - Thu Jul 30 11:01:45 2009

2009-08-05T22:44:00.000-07:00

I've begun to think of what we're doing with Gnoetry (in general) as not just a form of composition, but also a unique form of poetic improvisation, with gnoetry functioning in this metaphor much like a musical instrument. I won't go any further with that idea right now (it might become ridiculous), but I may later.

I'm without a stable internet connection in the apartment I'm staying at in Brooklyn, and the poems are piling up. So here's one more installment of The Same:

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the seed · a prospect of the island as
the two extremes · within the sexes · and
admired · may produce the kingdom and
the great external things · the palace with
a little spring · between the trees · the coast ·
a lovely place · a little river · now
a double canon · and the echoes made
the island where the mother is convex ·

the population · it began · in this
forsaken · solitary island · as
the night before the coming of the fear ·
the two extremes · between the sexes · and
the two extremes · between the trees · in which
were quite a distance from the island as
the rain · the wind · the food · the water all
around the palace gates · the seed · away ·

in its ascent · in all directions · as
a passing over · this confusion of
a wife in private as a wedding gift ·
a man in love · canals · assisted by
the stars in their perfection · there were tied ·
behind the trees · the two extremes · upon
the breeze · the seed · devices to secure
the seed · in its ascent · in these elect ·

Texts:
H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Fannie Louise Apjohn, The Enchanted Island

The Scratch

2009-08-04T19:41:00.001-07:00

"The curtain drops. The show herself. The air!
A show. A certain party takes a job
until the morning, if a show in town.
The funny thing about the show herself.

The act. The act. The show. 'A bottle of
champagne, lieutenant?' We were nothing but
the author says 'The Cadillac, the stage,
in such a fluffy ruffles, I suppose.'

The leading lady for a chance. The stage.
The way, the show, a jug! The way, the scratch!
The prima donna, and a chorus girl,
because the stage, the wind in his success."

Text:
Kenneth McGaffey, The Sorrows of a Show Girl

Meaning Governance

2009-07-31T15:14:00.000-07:00

Meaning is a social and historical phenomenon--dare I say an ideological phenomenon?--and so meanings are governed by convention. These conventions are housed in the architectures of one's given syntax and grammar. Though Gnoetry maintains enough syntax to create a sense of ordered composition, there is something inherently word-oriented about the composition process. The software acts on the word-level, each word transplanted from one system of utterance to another, e.g. from novel to poetic form, or from a system of culturally agreed upon meaning to the unhinged realm of multiple meaning that we've been describing. Gnoetry also brings us back into the history of a word.

We must imagine the hovering behind each word not the psychological or poetical intent of an author, but the text the word originates from and the word’s multitudinous meanings. The poem composed by means of this software must on some level be read in light of the historical and social context of the source texts, but also paradoxically in the manner of a poem whose social and historical context is a partial or complete mystery to us, or are so fragmented as to be open to any number of poetic interpretation, like the fragments of Archilochos or many Old English poems without name or specific context.

re:

2009-07-30T17:54:00.001-07:00

I like that phrase "tunnel of meaning." Nice.

But I do think that there is something significant to the situation that Gnoetry provides the end-user/author. While I was working with Heart of Darkness, I constantly felt the pull of the words' history, and it almost felt like I was wrestling with the original connotations and contexts of the words, often having to choose between whether to keep or alter their original intentions. This often depended upon my sense of what new context(s) had been brought about through the program's decontextualization. I think it is good to call this an act of recontextualization, and the possibilities available through Gnoetry for this act are vast, and limited as much by the source text(s) as the end-user's knowledge and imagination (or wit, even).

With the series I'm working on now, The Same, I'm working with signification and meaning-making in a more opaque fashion than before. Without personal or possessive pronouns, the meanings of mostly nouns, verbs and phrases are framed within the web of relationships to those that surround them, often developing in complexity as the poem progresses. Repetition, variation and word play become the most important for the reader to take some impression from each poem. I have tried for each section to affect some comprehension that is beyond the words or meanings used to bring it about. The poem "The Beach" is not essentially about the beach, or photography, or images of paradise. The reader should find some place to rest within (or in contrast to) the web of meanings and statements presented, and I feel that this place will be one more of clarity and significance than of confusion of vagueness.

I believe comprehension of signification's complexity and flexibility is important to the development of wisdom, or a sense of presence beyond conceptual frames. I think this relates to the loosening of "meaning governance," but I've run out of the mental energy to come up anything purposeful to say about this.

Could you say more about "meaning governance" and your position towards it? I think that would be an important conversation to have on this blog.

2009-07-30T17:10:00.000-07:00

"It's not non-sense if you mean every word of it, and mean every word to be a set of potential meanings instead of a singular one. I believe much of this comes down to the choices of the end-user, though, and not to anything inherent in the program."

Yes. Each word has what Christopher Dewdney calls a tunnel of meaning or signification; one looks through the word and through to different and possibly equally viable meanings, all the way back through the etymological history of the word. I wonder, though, if there is something inherent in the way the program reads the words before they become choices for the end-user that looses the words from meaning governance. The words are given to us according to the history of how the words are being used in a particular text, and then re-contextualized (quite literally) for the end-user to use. The software is doing things with words before the end-user is...and those things *allow* the new potential meanings to take place.

The Little - Wed Jul 29 03:22:20 2009

2009-07-29T00:30:00.000-07:00

The Same continues. I didn't like it for awhile, now I like it again after some time away from it. Something's happening in there, but what it is ain't exactly clear.

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the little island at the bases of
the islands of creation · down again ·
in fact · in thought · in any zone · beneath
the boys were much refreshed · the embryo
exactly ascertained · the boys were to
effect a beneficial nature · had
contrived a kangaroo beneath · the boys
were so delighted with the southern forms ·

the most alike · the most terrific · and
the two sometimes alone · a little hut
above · the condor lays a couple of
the other boys · the flowers · how unlike
the flowers of the others · no escape ·
the same conditions · from the hunger of
the islands of the raging bears · the boys
were much relieved · the gardens · and below ·

the great creator · on the island of
amusements · just begun · a tiny well
in ridicule · possessed within the day
in making so perfect a kangaroo ·
beneath the very first appearance of
the land within the body · cocoanuts ·
the boys desire · modify the fruit ·
desirous of the womb · the other side ·

Texts:
Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Fannie Louise Apjohn, The Enchanted Island

Conrad Gnonnet (The very essence of dreams)

2009-07-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

The very essence of dreams . . . he was it?
Through my glasses I saw next year, a mere
futility. Whirl of black feathers, queer
trunks, the devil of a street. Bit
by bit, through my glasses I saw clearly.
I saw how carefully I went from post
to post with my glass, how I put my most
to the left of us. This one, he
could work with adequate tools, but a bold
capacity for fidelity? No.
I had to wait days and days for him to go
“eh?” Enough then. He gave me a cold
and monumental whiteness. Nothing more.
An, an, an exceptional man. A connoisseur.

Text: Conrad, Heart of Darkness

end-user: Greg Fraser

Gnoetic thought

2009-07-27T17:43:00.000-07:00

The reader is ontologically de-natured from a typical lyric understanding of poetic process thru gnoetry b/c the author is as well, given her use of the machine as a prosthetic mind and hand and breath; hence, the reader is not asked, and indeed can not be asked, to fill in indeterminacies to complete the harmony of an organic whole. She is asked to leave indeterminacy in place & willfully seek meaning elsewhere; seek meaning in the poem itself, not worrying about finding connections to the "outside world" (though there is no out-right ban on that connection) or see through the language to authorial intention or psychology. Simply put, there is no meaning behind the words—we have only the meaning of the words.

Gnoetry Demo

2009-07-21T11:17:00.000-07:00

I've been without my main Gnoetry machine for a week or so, and have been loath to dig out of the archives again. So, I want to briefly describe the latest Gnoetry demo I made for an intensive creative writing class at NEIU at the behest of fellow Gnoet Olivia Cronk, who has participated in Gnoetic events here in Chicago.

The students displayed the entire range of responses to Gnoetry: that's not really poetry because there's no individual creative input; it's a great play-thing for kids, maybe, but it's not serious poetry; that's the most amazing thing I've ever seen; it would have taken me months to come up with a line like that; doesn't Gnoetry take the real work out of poetry; can I put my own poetry in it; &c.

I gave several of my stock answers, including the idea that all Gnoetry does it distill what all poets do: analyze language that they've been given, rewarding and penalizing pieces of that language according to their ability to fit within a certain idea of poetry. The most hard-line anti-Gnoetry person relented a bit when presented with this idea, as well as the idea that we, none of us, have an "individual" language that we invent and compose with--poetry is written with a shared language, and even more so when you are very concerned with a certain notion of literal and transparent meaning. When you are most concerned with clear meaning is in fact when you are least an "individual." And if that's the case, then the end-user/Gnoetry relationship, if you must, is a very distinct form of individuality...

One of the most interesting questions was: "Is Gnoetry political?"

Is it?

More Free Grass (10 Haikus)

2009-07-18T13:11:00.000-07:00

Twice the one room shot
of the birth, the wrongful harm
it entails. O me!

Ah, he that flushes
and flushes, the secret of
creativity.

On average, we
must be a violation
of democracy.

Steady whirring, the
norms of our new world, of
course always dying!

I sing of the first
search engine in a barn. Us,
all framed around us.

And you, bend down to
speak! Peace is always and at
all about the bill.

When there is love, and
five feet of you, o little
shells to paradise!

This is code, from the
sentence. The very act of
love! We don't all sleep.

It made him die. I
mean to fund ads that try to
change the industry.

I believe in you,
for the single file sharing
is in the loving.

Another Katrina Gnoem

2009-07-16T12:25:00.000-07:00

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SHE WAS DEAD, & YOU’RE SAYING
THAT THE INTERNET IS THE INTERSTATE

she was dead
and you're saying

that the internet
is the interstate –

prosody in chains
and blankets

congress of day
laborers

we were only
trying to take you

to salvation
in a plane

riding toward
representation

pale green
roses

employed
to find jobs

answering the king
when he spies an ox

so long as
the eyes open

Bush Rules
Out Tax Hike

To Fund
Recovery

pushes up
like a plantation

who said anything
about our future?

I bid you adieu.
Dear father, all

modalities of
the pain went missing

the Mississippi
delta with shotguns

the blacks coming to
rough you up

the editors
of photographs

contaminating
the hum of decay –

a misdemeanor
she never recorded –

perhaps I’ve
been out there

perched on sailboats
to death

trained to recognize
the insignificance of

the most desperate
and take them around

in heaven with all
the alleged

inhumanity
of Halliburton

I drove truck loads
of semen

inside my mind
watching their money

run out of her urine
an empty bank

the construction
of the Lord

will give me some
new casinos

so what if the
terrorists are

located?

____
This is a combination of about 8 different outputs. I changed the lineation but kept the phrasing intact. Most were written with only the Katrina sources, though a few contained Indian Erotica source text and/or the Birth text.

Another Gnonnet

2009-07-13T17:43:00.000-07:00

The battle of the sixth edition was
amended by the mother, baby. Who
our poet will maintain the proper cause
the master had received. In efforts to

restrain her as Pandora was the grand
hotel abyss, a proclamation who
the two co-operate. She works the man
as armed police a court decision grew.

A dream a bad idea to reform,
was cast away upon the chaplain's wife!
The son, the public and the first in warm,
in which perhaps consist in an old life

the sword began berating me? The list
below the folds the people had the mist.

More Free Grass (12 Haikus)

2009-07-09T21:45:00.000-07:00

I love the world. No
doubt I have the internet.
Sparkles from the world!

Seen at hand or seen
at night or anywhere, it
is just something new.

Like the laws, splashing
my bare feet long, the transfer
of information.

It was designed to
protect the thumb, the market
is universal.

Words no more extreme
than churches, and my love songs
of love for trespass.

As if dead, and not
just as George Gershwin. There's no
rights reserved but this?

Good news and jets; beef
on the overthrown, the thief
has a computer.

Free will, the millions
of myself, they go down! Ah,
we all own people.

Unseen buds unseen
buds unseen buds, repeating
and disappearing.

The rhetoric of
this work, trade, products, games, it
was good to copy.

To talk to do a
kind of advertising. No
one moves or speaks, no.

Sex contains all the
areas of research that
might be satisfied.

Katrina Gnoem

2009-07-08T11:38:00.000-07:00

Thanks to the various Erics responsible for getting me equipped and on this blog! The source text for my first post is a collection of articles, blogs, and message boards re: the hurricane.

HIS ARM WAS MISSING, AND HE NEEDED HELP

His arm was missing, and he needed help
to mitigate and to accept, etc. For those

who stayed, dressed like dogs, who wore crosses
and spurs, found that the answer was lying prostrate

on the freeway every day: the embryo
body posture, the image of death, flag floating from a trash

can. He leaned over the dusty counterterrorism, and
the volleys fired through the womb, overcome

with militia and praying mantis. His wife
was even reflected in miniature. He asked

if she understood what was happening down
there. In the dark. That some Will Smith would be

the official relief effort. The scale
of mental health crisis. There is no way to follow him.

In a trance, working in that morgue where all the
lights had gone was Bush's vision of our slaves. Life

spilling out of department of health, part of the cleanup
by Murphy Oil of a deer, turkeys, ducks, snipe,

two children, a few plastic bags, vomit and piss.
The most powerful developers have relentlessly

attempted to turn the blame, to send it
into these animals. We are looking

at the mercy of criminals. These are the extravagant
visions of them with almost no working radios,

vision blurred and distorted the identification.

Texts:
Random, Katrina Sources
VA, Birth Source Text

More Gnonnetry

2009-07-07T11:07:00.000-07:00

The fact. It's small, opaque, secreted by
the Nixon plan, approached the cottage and
the number of the scope itself in my
opinion is a new condition. Stand,

the chairs were set before the war began,
the two succeeding days were free.Iin such
a day! A lot in Haiti with the man
in Fort Defiance. These were fitted, much

suspicion. You apologize? "A way
the total population," he replied,
"the Jews in their desire for a day,
in which the fires that destroy the pride

submitted to the regions of the case."
The river. Our study had the face.

Yet Another Gnonnet; this time using Gnoetry0.3 (beta)

2009-07-06T18:36:00.000-07:00

The beast condenses the contradiction of
the churches got allotments they were most
concerned. A parent offers. That, in love,
the pioneers the way the two, the ghost

in our future wants, platonic, and
returned in middle ground between the east,
the law, the power of the hubbub: land
requirements: number forty-nine? The beast.

The little girls Amanda and her curls,
accosted him in doing so: a fierce
ejaculation, and, in setting. Girls
begin the action of the Christmas. Peirce

describes the way the human species might
appear in March, a modern, or the white.

Another Gnonnet

2009-07-01T19:35:00.001-07:00

Her Shoes Were White

Estella was the matter with Estella,
very true! Until the sun, the sky,
the way, her shoes were white. The
hopeless circumstances grew by
degrees, the effort of remembrance.
The old Estella wandered to the church,
the marsh. She wended in an iron trance,
her illness on a little tray. Birch,
sky, the convict's breathing. Finches of
the shore. Go on, said the voice. A man
in that direction waits, like a glove.
Quickly. Before a week, a day. A man
in that direction. But Estella aspired
to the greatest coolness, and she were tired.

Text: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Gnonnet by end-user Greg Fraser

2009-06-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-29T18:30:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-06-29T07:28:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-27T18:05:00.001-07:00

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)

2009-06-25T16:35:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-24T09:36:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-23T19:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-23T19:28:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-06-22T16:46:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-20T09:24:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-06-19T19:02:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-18T20:45:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-17T19:54:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-17T18:28:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-16T22:26:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-15T18:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-12T16:34:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-11T19:30:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-11T18:08:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-06-10T17:29:00.001-07:00

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

2009-06-09T19:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-06-04T15:21:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-06-03T17:40:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-06-02T18:43:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-06-01T17:28:00.001-07:00

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

Fortean Poem (2)

2009-05-29T16:59:00.000-07:00

I preferred reading this as prose. I like how it looks this way too.

_______

Fri May 29 20:02:22 2009

In the sky in chicago, principles, remote, as if birds blood, or parts of, disregarding that they be, there are other things, mere suggestion of a merger.

I seemed to be a bird, iron, they fell in the sky, or that which will some day be displaced; that are conveniences.

Texts:
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

Utile Bad Man Tankas

2009-05-28T19:25:00.000-07:00

Thu May 28 21:21:18 2009

They are not the mind
itself or mitigation
of the table, be

not first introduced into
the world by experience.

Thu May 28 21:22:28 2009

We have had happened,
which was the exercise of
my desires, and

she will see all this I can
explain it all over her.

Thu May 28 21:23:17 2009

I must take their whole
character and even then
I do not; and so

I just ask so as to know
what has made ethics not moan.

Statistically Analyzed Texts:
Feodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

Wed May 27 20:41:47 2009 (pinched, etc.)

2009-05-27T18:42:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon, had
pinched, etc. So
a merry night song
and deference. I'll

just ask yourself in,
it was crushed in the
midst of a dull red brick,
and recompense in

jerusalem. Both
men entered and sobbing,
to cut her bonds. Both,
so that love to both.

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

Mon May 25 20:02:45 2009 (They swelled)

2009-05-25T18:02:00.000-07:00

He was in
the tomb of
his bearers.

It was, was
approaching.
They were, with

the stride of
a cowboy,
then. They swelled.

Statistically Analyzed Text:
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

Fortean Poems

2009-05-23T10:41:00.001-07:00

On my brother's suggestion, I've tokenized Charles Fort's The Book of the Damned. Here goes:

Sat May 23 13:26:02 2009

No further. I'm a tornado. The writer
doesn't specifically say that: scrapers, of
course often they're mixed up, like a cat and a
luminous train. The writer says it's all directions, horses
running away, the water were floating patches
of butter. Cells of an earthquake, it might be a datum:
the roofs of missionaries, of
something that should be higher: that light is reported, always
restricted by wreckage. The book
of writing, very likely to be published.

Texts:
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

The Waves (The Same)

2009-05-22T06:23:00.000-07:00

(Thu May 21 18:23:10 2009)

the waves · the way the waves · the island will
produce perfection · so exhausted · with
the very center of the coast · upon
a coast · the purpose of consumption · on
the boiling lava · constitution · on
the waves · the western coast · in other waves ·
upon a sandy beach · the lava was
about a half the numbers of the waves ·

the island · as were taken from the waves ·
in other birds · extracted from the feet
below · the fire from the feathered feet ·
the building up · the forms descended from
a candle · thrown in as precise a way ·
the number of volcanoes on the feet ·
the number of design · declined · in man's
productions · if a half the sparks produced ·

a chimney was established · to support
the tenants of a wave · the common life ·
organic beings are united · by
a channel at the lining of the feet ·
the sound asleep · denuded · separates
the little harbor · and were given for
the waves · the motion of the shore · the same
conclusion · sleep before the rocks in love ·

Moby-Koan

2009-05-20T18:25:00.000-07:00

In life, a ship. The issue was, the ship
itself, a thousand fathoms down in it.

*

A wooden idol, and the earth, unknown
in which Columbus struck the zodiac.

*

The irons darted at the plying oars,
advance. The captain of the shark, advance.

*

Extending it upon the stream! Commend
the ship, collect the thousand voices thee.

*

The virgin be a consternation, so
the universal problem of Bordeaux.

Statistically Analyzed Text:
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Cristo Koan

2009-05-19T18:32:00.000-07:00

Tue May 19 20:20:07 2009

The bandits rose, advanced a rendezvous.
The magistrate alluded, valentine.

Statistically Analyzed Text:
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

The Velveteen Koan

2009-05-18T18:17:00.000-07:00

Mon May 18 20:13:58 2009

The boy. The boy. The boy, the boy, the boy,
the fairy said, because the boy. The boy.

Statistically Analyzed Text:
Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

The More (The Same)

2009-05-17T14:13:00.000-07:00

(Thu May 7 15:48:53 2009)

the more severe · the forms descended from
a false position · incognito · and
in opposition to the beach · define
the several stages of attaining · would
succeed · the most · within a single word ·
the master of the central flowers · and
in great confusion · more ferocious than
the forms descended from a gun · evolved ·

extinction · this advantage of · the more
perfect · the cave in everything · the air
in opposition to accumulate ·
in order to arrive · the very · yes ·
a palace of effect · the simple · and
the more effect · the only being so ·
the cave · the pure · consisted of restraint ·
especially if in both a castaway ·

the wet · the waves · the more · in ridicule ·
the sexes · energetic · barricade
the embryo · the level place · a truce
between the species · each formation of
the worse · the worse the holes in everything ·
in water · standing up · the shore became
congested · and the worse the waves · the more
severe the worse · the deeper and received ·

Fri May 15 20:49:18 2009 (The game?)

2009-05-15T18:50:00.000-07:00

The same conception of the great divide.
The show, a stormy night, a restaurant.

A person, and a tooth. The interest of
the berth, the way. In this condition of

the first, in other words, the object of
desire to repel. The same. The game?

Statistically Analyzed Texts:
Kenneth McGaffey, The Sorrows of a Show Girl
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

Thu May 14 17:57:49 2009 (Bronze Renga)

2009-05-14T15:58:00.000-07:00

No, not sinned in bronze
was Jesus the son of this
pompous address, and

he that saved me. I shall see
your boy, and the fiery

one of the sea he
appeared, yet touching the heart
of artillery.

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