RE: FLUXLIST: mesostic

[Allan Revich]

1)       Got it here:   http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic/what.html   2)       Don’t get so hung up on minutiae Rod. This is the Fluxus Fluxlist after all, lighten up. If you feel the need to get hyper-technical than you also need to accept that the word “mesostic” is a neologism in (inconsistent) use by a barely significant percentage of English speakers. As such there is no accepted definition. The source cited above makes reference to Cage having defined and redefined the term himself which would indicate that there may not have ever been a dogmatic definition of this particular neologism, even by its original creator.     3)       You can let a computer write a mesostomatic poem for you here: http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic/   Allan   From: owner-FLUXLIST@scribble.com [mailto:owner-FLUXLIST@scribble.com] On Behalf Of Rod Stasick Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:26 AM To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: mesostic     On 2006 May 19, at 8:43 AM, Allan Revich wrote: n his early mesostics, Cage would simply write a word (usually a name) vertically down the page, with all the letters capitalized. Then, he would "fill in the blanks" and come up with a poem using the "spine" he had chosen. For Example (by the author): the b Eautiful o Xen are ro Aming a Mong us op Portunity is be Laboring th Em I don't know where this example came from, but it is NOT a mesostic. Neither is Dawgs unfortunately. Neither one follow the rule of mesostics set forth by Cage.     Rod             --- Now playing: psi - The ___ who had begun his career as a useful ___ of the ___ court later became the ___ of ___ and the ___ of ___.               Rotokas and Mura-Piraha have only 11 phonemes, the smallest on record.