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From: Johamar <johamar@mi.is>
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Subject: Re: A way for surrealists to take over the world
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:43:13 +0000
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On 11.2.2004 5:02, in article
YHiWb.19468$F23.13359@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net, "Allsmoky"
<allsmoky@yourhouse.not> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
Someone would call this computer-poetry, others probably DADA, but my
interpretation is that this kind of "poetry" is that it is just plain silly.
This activity is surely not surrealism. But you are having fun, so why not
call this what it is, a game.
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