Excerpts from: mme e
Earlier today I was walking around thinking about Zukofsky’s homophonic Catullus and Melnick’s great Men in Aida, thinking about that element of deterministic but negatively capable cognition. Later on, I realized that I’d left my sunroof open in a rainstorm with a bunch of papers in the front seat, and found a workshop portfolio soaked through with all the ink running. I noticed that on a few pages, a few eye-catching patterns of legibility remained. I’m sure you’re all familiar with radi os and similar experiments— except while those are acts of mediation and deliberate palimpsest, here nature had stepped in and done a little aleatoric fucking about. Let’s see: tweaked homophonically here and there but in principle as I found it—
Note: Click through for proper formatting. Also— the first fragment is more ‘faithful’ to the procedure, the second is more ‘reconstructed.’ Obviously.
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wrecked
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