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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Excercise in Breathing:Literary Twitter Forced from Random
Typing:Phenomenological Waveforms Narrowing the Littoral Zone:
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:06:37 -0400 (EDT)
Excercise in Breathing: Literary Twitter Forced from Random Typing: Phenomenological Waveforms Narrowing the Littoral Zone: http://www.alansondheim.org/language.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/lund25.mp4 ur-text (random typing, eyes closed): jk osdfk l aook bui oodw jjbook wl sool wlob smoulbur brunmar candron smargjul brudew * expansion (aspell choices, semantic cloud enveloping individual words, in alphabetic order per word): JFK acidify Aztec aardvark ascetic acidic acetic amok hook Cook kook book look cook nook gook rook Bi Bud bi bub bu bud bur bug buy bum ode Odom Dow ow OD OED odor odd pod bode cookbook workbook jojoba Jacobi logbook Jacob jackboot jujube cashbook casebook L LL l ll wk awl W owl w AL solo stool soil soul Sol STOL sol cool spool fool lob glob blob slob smolder Malibu somber Somali similar slumber smile slobber Smollett smaller brunt bringer Brynner brinier brunet Brennan Bruno Brianna Brenner Bruneian Canton cauldron canton cantering andiron condone Calderon Canadian smugly surgical magical smuggler smuggle bride rude brute brides bred Brad breed Bret brew Brut contraction (first and most likely word, replacing original, in each case): JFK acidify l amok Bi ode cookbook L solo lob smolder brunt Canton smugly bride sensate (attempt to create overall meaning by substitution, bending or bypassing the suggestions): JFK acidly looked amok at an ode or cookbook, the letter L alone lobbed, smoldered, burnt in Canton near a smug bride. +++ * Originally I decided to leave the original nonsensical line out; it would then appear only as ghost or shadow potential to the process as a whole. In any case, it disappeared when aspell choices replaced the words, one by one. I then found a saved copy of the original in my directory (the file was originally "zz"; the replacements sent zz into "zz.bak"). I thought, why not, in the interests of complete documentation and aboveboard display of the entire process, to include zz.bak, in spite of the fact that doing so reduced the aesthetic content and value of the piece. It was in the interests of full disclosure that I do so, especially since there is a reference to the tweets of the regime, which already implies a far more devious and brutal subterfuge. It is at this point of course that the piece splits; on one hand, there's a desire to retain a sense of the sublime, and on the other, a desire with full disclosure, to abjure any mystery that's not based on at least a semblance of truth in the real. Hence this piece as a whole, accompanied by footnotes and perhaps even further imaginary and absent apparatus of the work as a whole. +++ And then a question of slippage and the somatic, underlying everything, an experience of typing itself, before the grand experiment: "Testing as I grow older the issue of typing - why are the letter ouyt of order, misrecognitions, spellings, confusions, depletions, I'm not surewhat else is going on. But the lag migh contribute to it, no? Or something beyond my control as I sit here and type rapidly, not looking at the keyboard or words as theyappear on the screen, wondering about neural connections and the constat noise our place is subject to, which sets me on edge, increases anxiety beyond the boiling point. As if I could feel the keys slipping out from unde me..."... +++