The line breaks are chosen by the writer from a menu - haiku, tanka, renga,
blank verse, syllabics in fixed or random patterns - then the machine
presents the material in that pattern. The writer can of course alter
anything afterwards while the process of composition involves the machine
offering text and the writer accepting or rejecting at will.
As for the other question, no, it's a very occasional blog :)
best
Dave
On 3 August 2011 16:05, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> You dont post all that often, do you Dave?
>
> Neat, that, but sad about the trombone.
>
> Who chooses the line breaks? The machine or the 'writer'?
>
> Doug
> On 2011-08-03, at 1:15 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > PS
> >
> > i had a far weirder transformation than that yesterday, take a look at my
> > blog at http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3 August 2011 08:08, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I think we pronounce it differently, Patrick.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3 August 2011 07:04, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dave a nun!
> >>> P!
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> >>> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> >>> Sent: 03 August 2011 06:45
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Gnomic Snap
> >>>
> >>> *The First Boy of Monte Lotto *
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I was none. Save
> >>>
> >>> for a man who had been a
> >>>
> >>> gardener, and walked
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> on, ill fed upon trout brought
> >>>
> >>> from Switzerland, suffering.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Texts:
> >>>
> >>> Horatio Alger Jr., Joe The Hotel Boy
> >>>
> >>> The Internet, Nigerian Spam and Bogus Lotto
> >>>
> >>> H. G. Wells, The First Men In The Moon
> >>>
> >>> Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *a 'collaboration' with Gnome 0.2*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> >>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> >>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> >>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> >>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> >> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> >> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> 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
>
--
David Joseph Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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