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  1. Composition No. 1

    "The reader is requested to shuffle these pages like a deck of cards; to cut, if he likes, with his left hand, as at a fortuneteller’s. The order the pages then assume will orient X’s fate.

    For the time and order of events control a man’s life more than the nature of such events. Certainly there is a framework which history imposes: the presence of a man in the resistance, his transfer to the Army of Occupation in Germany, relate to a specific period. Similarly, the events that marked his childhood cannot be presented in the same way as those which he experienced as an adult.

    Nor is it a matter of indifference to know if he met his mistress Dagmar before or after his marriage; if he took advantage of Helga at the time of her adolescence or her maturity; if the theft he has committed occurred under cover of the resistance or in less troubles times; if the automobile accident in which he has been hurt is unrelated to the theft — or the rape — or if it occurred during his getaway.

    Whether the story ends well or badly depends on the concatenation of circumstances. A life if composed of many elements. But the number of possible compositions is infinite."

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.07.2011 - 23:20

  2. Cent mille milliards de poèmes

    A book of sonnets were the pages are cut into strips so that you can combine the first line of one sonnet with the second line of any other sonnet and so on, thus generating, possibly, "a hundred thousand billion poems". An antecedent of computationally generated poetry.

    Scott Rettberg - 25.08.2012 - 22:23