whomsoever-
I am extremely intrigued by the idea of a list
dedicated to the discussion of poetics but I am rather
late to the party, so to speak. having had a nose at
Mark Weiss' mini manifesto is that the sort of thing
that goes on here?
From my own point of view I prefer games to
manifesto's for this reason my main interest is in the
OULIPO?
They were a group of writers and mathematicians who
were/are interested in the proposition that freedom in
literary creation isn't all that important. Far more
likely they conjectured that by imposing very strict
rules, as in the manner of a game, creativity would
escape from the shackles of the everyday, the super
ego or one's predecessors or whatever else one wishes
to escape from. An example of their method is a novel
by George Perec which does not use the letter "E" this
trick or trope gave the writer a perfect metaphor for
approaching the question of the disappearance of the
Jews in the holocaust. The OULIPO by their own
admission were not terribly interested in the
difference between prose and poetry rather what they
pursued was the adaption of rules (the stricter and
and more arbitrary the better)
I wonder if there are any out there who feel like me
that this is incredibly rich vain of research, where
discoveries might be made, especially with the
addition that computer power might have to the
production of literature. To give you some idea of
where my interest lie here is a sample of my output,
such as it is
The tale of Toby
Once primest prigs would ogle old louse
trash with the never failing cantrip-blouze
But f’ the swinger swindler and foot pad
the decoys and bamboozles at the last go drab:
swindled on a crank’s blag or tout’s tip
or in bluff-gaff wi’ doxy gash clap.
A dawg like the slatten get ‘eir ‘ed stove in
And snooze cuff cured in pools of bludgeonin’,
This sham of slang this slum drawl is for slags
That humbug to old bogus hacks flog.
So recant then but can’t? there’s a recanter everyday
can’t recant cant, while there’s betrayal to betray.
Almost all the words here are gleaned from the Oxford
English Dictionary and are in Cant a language now
defunct but once (so dictionary makers would have us
believe) spoken by thieves and tramps and prostitutes.
Most of the words that you aren't familiar with above
are synonyms for prostitute except cantrip which means
magic. Slag isn't Cant and I decided on a whim to use
it anyway.
I hope it gives pleasure
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