Yeah, I see that; & you get to choose the texts, so there's that human input, still, somehow, some way....
Doug
On 2011-07-31, at 9:54 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I think it has potential, Doug. Here's another, a tanka this time:
>
> The Hotel Machine
>
>
> It is a vast dome
>
> glowing with a love for each
>
> other. The ore in
>
>
> the light. We learn all you are
>
> in themselves so easily.
>
>
>
> Texts:
>
> Horatio Alger Jr., Joe The Hotel Boy
>
> A. Maude Royden, Sex And Common-Sense
>
> H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
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>
>
>
> On 31 July 2011 16:03, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps as footnote one says, 'Gnoetry acts as a proof to Wittgenstein’s
>> dictum that “a poem, even though it is composed of the language of
>> information is not used in the language-game of giving information” (Zettel
>> §160).'
>>
>> But that can still be true of ones we write without mechanical aid.
>>
>> So, I'm intrigued, but remain somewhat true to mysel(ves), as I suspect you
>> still do, too, David.
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2011-07-31, at 7:22 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>>> Firstly, this link gives a manifesto, I'm not posting it as necessarily
>>> being support for any views of mine but perhaps as a statement of intent,
>> if
>>> that word can be used, it's a useful proclamation:
>>>
>>> http://www.womenwriters.net/digitaleves/gnoetry.html
>>>
>>>
>>> While here's a link for an automated diastic poem maker:
>>>
>>> eDiastic: Poetry Generation using a Diastic Reading
>>> technique<http://www.eddeaddad.net/eDiastic/>
>>>
>>> And this is a link for installing Gnoetry 0.2 (you do need Ubuntu in one
>>> form or another)
>>>
>>> Gnoetry 0.2 – Download and Install Howto « Markovian Parallax Generate:
>> On
>>> digital writing and
>>> poetics<
>> http://mchainpoetics.wordpress.com/gnoetry-0-2-download-and-install-howto/
>>>
>>>
>>> and finally here's debut Gnoem I made:
>>>
>>>
>>> A Bartleby Christmas
>>>
>>> The natives, then the instance of a child:
>>> a man. A virgin and a few. Expect
>>> the second fall, in his accustomed voice,
>>> replied the girl, appearing from the lines.
>>>
>>> The copies, and the other two. In what,
>>> the air, about the sun the weather was
>>> surrounded. It arises from the next
>>> gradation, and the ghost, in this. In what,
>>>
>>> the moon. The sea, upon the ground. In what,
>>> the objects fall, described in one respect.
>>> In what, the room the day, in silence for
>>> a shade. The data of the ceiling, man.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Texts:
>>> Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
>>> Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener
>>> Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, The
>>>
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> dave
>>> --
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>>
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>> It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem
>> strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your
>> inadequacies.
>>
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>
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> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your inadequacies.
William H. Gass
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