Speaking Clock

A HyperCard stack that generates poetry (from an existing list of terms) based on the computer's internal time. In addition to a static text around the edges of the clock (which can cycle with clicking), a dynamically-generated text appears in the center.

For more technical and literary information, please see Christopher Funkhouser's analysis at: arts.brunel.ac.uk/gate/entertext/5_3/ET53FunkhouserEd.doc

Technical notes:

The contributor was not able to run the stack on BasiliskII (System 7.5.x), but had success on SheepShaver (OS 8).

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
Electronic Literature, Chapter 5: Kinetic and Interactive Poetry
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and The Speaking Clock	Espen Aarseth	1999
Approaches to Digital Literature: Temporal Dynamics and Cyborg Authors	Raine Koskimaa	2010
Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary Cybertext	John Cayley	1996
Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen	2012
Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries	Loss Pequeño Glazier	2001
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	2014
Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation	Espen Aarseth	2004
Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995	Chris Funkhouser	2007
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen	2009

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Alexander Duryee