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> Somewhere a sunflower turns its face towards tomorrow.
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I greatly appreciate the welcoming attitude you have displayed :))
The FAQ is well done, and very informative.
In the past, I've had a lot of fun entering German poetry into my
wordprocesser and then altering it by means of spell-check. Then I would
edit just to smooth it out.
Would such an activity be considered surrealist? Since it's not really the
automatism, it's not really springing from the unconscious, it's probably
more of an abstract expressionist "wank", I suppose? It is a collaboration
between a dead German poet and a spell-checker -- and a proofreader. If I
recall it, one of them started with
I'm frothy fancying fluid surge, Daffodil breathes, I cannot feel my toes...
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