Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

[Cecil Touchon]

Thanks Allan! I really enjoyed making that work and the way of gathering the lines of text - one line from each document of the search results for the spinal phrase give a bit more structure than my regular way of constructing poems which are more haphazard. If I add the other restriction of each line omitting any words that contain the following spinal letter, then that could add another way to dismiss various phrases and select others - but I am not sure that is needed for my purposes. We'll see. Interesting. So since that is not quite a Mesostic as Rod mentions then I suppose I should come up with some other name like maybe search phrase or spam totems or something. I also do not like words arranged purely by chance as a final result. I do like how material, gathered by chance that is created by a system, allows for serendipity and some personal choices derived from insights caused by the material gathered. That gives the collage/found material element that I am looking for. 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 direction. I like ambiguity but not total confusion or having things so criptic that others won't want to spend their time to figure it out. A certain amount of accessability, I think, is a good thing. I like Cage a lot but his way of working and the resultant works do not always satisfy me. I believe a work of art should inspire one to cherish it. Cecil Allan Revich wrote: Cecil,   That is very cool! It will stay that way in my head whether it ‘works’ or not ;-)   Allan   From: owner-FLUXLIST@scribble.com [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 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 letter for that line. [bracketted] elements were added to bind things together when needed. cecil                                                                    Reparation shall be made [for]                      those who experienced our govErnment’s abuses of dissenters                         any form of government inausPicious to liberty,                                       engage[d] in counteRrproductive, immoral pre-emptive war                          will make their decisions basEd on the four fundamentals.                                                   In contra-diStinction to tyranny                        their bizarre, oppressive tacticS with their own citizens                                            is cause for consIderable concern              used to castigate us as a political moVement                                    revealing secrets concErning the security of the state.                                                              The liGht of operational experience                               constrained what they coUld ask                                                 entirely in an Indigenous language.                                 Their ahistorical, fear-riDden, repressive approach [attracted]                                   outsiders and reactionAries [who] urgently [a] call for unity                                               calling attentioN to abuses at the highest levels                                                               poliCy reform groups all over the world declare            never accede to state or cultural policiEs.