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From: elag <elag@cloud8.net>
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Subject: Re: A way for surrealists to take over the world
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 -0500
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Allsmoky wrote:
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> > >
> > > Reading FAQ now.
> >
> >
> > Somewhere a sunflower turns its face towards tomorrow.
> >
> I greatly appreciate the welcoming attitude you have displayed :))
s'nuthin...
>
> The FAQ is well done, and very informative.
Yeah, I (or someone) should post it periodically. Someone should finish
it, too... but it won't be me.
>
> 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...
It's been an amusement for me as well. The Surrealist used many methods
of subverting conscious control... collage, word cut-ups, collaboration.
This method could just be considered another tool in that vein. It is
important to remember that even though the tool (software) is doing most
of the work it is still as a function of the choices of the "writer".
This is especially true if any editing is involved.
Also, the end result might be cosidered to be the new associations
formed in one's head as a result of the scrambled text rather than the
text itself.
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