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128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
If only I had closed the book and skipped every part of it. I get that the stanzas are meant to be interchangeable and that you could create hundreds of thousands of poems from these bits and pieces...but is it really that smart? If a stanza can be paired with any other stanza, how vague and pointless does it have to be? If the now-defunct website had a way of randomly generating poems from this text, I could see it being entertaining for a few hours. But I'm not gonna flip back and forth through this mess to try to find something brilliant.
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Gentle Reader, begin anywhere. Skip anything. This text
is framed
fully for the purposes of skipping. Of course,
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it can
be read straight through, but this is not a better reading,
not a better life. You are being asked
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to move with great
rapidity. As if it weren't there. As if you were a frog,
a frog that since it's disappearing
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thinks to ask,
for the first time, in which element it really does
belong. Leaping progress
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will consist
in considering this and closing the book. Anything
else will represent a settled course.
(p.34 "Errand Upon Which We Came")
a double
positive is
not
a negative. "Yeah,
yeah."
鈽篋别别辫
rule(s), par-t[ur]i-tion.
The delicacy
of fractal curves, point jumping
in the phase space"
(p. 43 "WaveSon.net 43)