Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Cecil Touchon
Hi Rod, Thanks for the lesson! I think I got it. So the restriction only carries to the following line and then you start over fresh right? Not to the rest of the poem right? and when you say not *followed* by as in next (in order) you find a word that has an E, but not followed by a P: does

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Cecil Touchon
[mailto:owner-FLUXLIST@scribble.com] On Behalf Of Cecil Touchon Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 4:24 PM To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Subject: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance hey rod, does this work? I took a found phrase from some spam mail (repressive guidance) then I used

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Rod Stasick
Sure, no prob. These thing are sometimes easier to present in person. Remember these are the two kinds: • 50 percent mesostics: between any two mesoletters, you can't have the second and • 100 percent mesostics: between any two mesoletters, you can't have either. Let's use The

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 May 20, at 2:22 AM, Cecil Touchon wrote: You say it 'implies the context of the original without including all of the words. So are you saying that you would leave out anywords from a found phrase that has the offending letter and otherwise keep the other words? No, you

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 May 20, at 3:12 AM, Cecil Touchon wrote: I also like including a few words of my own [in the brackets] that, for me, gives a little extra touch of direction like adding shading to a form to force it to go behind or in front of something else or inclide it to flow in this or that

FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-19 Thread Cecil Touchon
hey rod, does this work? I took a found phrase from some spam mail (repressive guidance) then I used it as a search term in google then I took one phrase from each resultant web page in the order that they were returned as results finding a phrase that I liked and that contained the spinal

RE: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-19 Thread Allan Revich
: Mesostics: repressive guidance hey rod, does this work? I took a found phrase from some spam mail (repressive guidance) then I used it as a search term in google then I took one phrase from each resultant web page in the order that they were returned as results finding a phrase that I liked

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-19 Thread Rod Stasick
Hi Cecil, The first word Reparation can't be used because it already contains your next letter E (rEparation). You can't have any words that already have the following meso letter. I don't know what your original text was, so I can't do what you wanted to do, BUT I can create a mesostic

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-19 Thread Rod Stasick
Also, I will say too that it's sometimes difficult to line up all of the mesoletters in a straight line, but Cage's directions allowed the text to be written horizontally too: ouR govErnment inausPicious to libeRty Engage in counterproductive, immoral baSed fundamentalS In