italy trip 2nd instalment
…the account of our short foray onto italian soil continues hereafter, complete with one or two photos of the passing scenery. this second instalment retells elements recalled from the second day of our stay…
…and now, with the news just coming in regarding in regarding the earthquake in L’Aquila, the details of the extent of the destruction in the middle of Italy, I would like to express my sadness in hearing about it. Although these notes on our journey were written over a month ago, I would like to frame the rest of my instaments with a soppy dedication to all the people we met there who helped us and made us welcome – despite our obvious ignorance in everything we did …
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…and now, with the news just coming in regarding in regarding the earthquake in L’Aquila, the details of the extent of the destruction in the middle of Italy, I would like to express my sadness in hearing about it. Although these notes on our journey were written over a month ago, I would like to frame the rest of my instaments with a soppy dedication to all the people we met there who helped us and made us welcome – despite our obvious ignorance in everything we did …
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Auto-poetics at a glance
Quoting Eldon,
Linear? The clouds strike me as a form of poetics. Recombinations. Maybe it’s possible this leans toward a ‘machine poetics,’ in which juxtapositions are worked out via algorythms. Given some vast database of raw stuff, there are haiku generators. haiku@everypoet
Alas, you can see the formula must be crude. I stopped reloading the page for new haiku with this one:
What I hoped to find was one into which i could plug in ND text. Peter’s Haiku Generator doesn’t fit that bill, but it uses a better formula/vocabulary combination. Then I discovered such generators are a dime-a-dozen.
At Virtual Courtney’s blog, she reveals her own formula:
well, i think it’s great – better than the words themselves in some ways – i mean, rather than having to read and digest a linear explanation, you can see all at once what was written, with the high frequency items flagging the main meaningful elements that respondants added to their answers.
Linear? The clouds strike me as a form of poetics. Recombinations. Maybe it’s possible this leans toward a ‘machine poetics,’ in which juxtapositions are worked out via algorythms. Given some vast database of raw stuff, there are haiku generators. haiku@everypoet
Alas, you can see the formula must be crude. I stopped reloading the page for new haiku with this one:
mules replenish,
gruff still ancient
fisherwoman delivers glumly
What I hoped to find was one into which i could plug in ND text. Peter’s Haiku Generator doesn’t fit that bill, but it uses a better formula/vocabulary combination. Then I discovered such generators are a dime-a-dozen.
At Virtual Courtney’s blog, she reveals her own formula:
My haiku generator is one javascript that reads from four arrays, two of words & two of punctuation. One word array is composed of two syllable words or phrases, and the other word array is composed of three syllable words or phrases. The first and last line of each haiku are written by a function that arbitrarily picks whether the order is “2 + 3″ or “3 + 2.” The middle line reads from a function that arbitrarily determines whether the order is “2 + 2 + 3,” “2 + 3 + 2,” or “3 + 2 + 2.” The first two lines are punctuated by a function with all sorts of punctuation, and the last line is punctuated by a function that only uses end punctuation. Pretty slick, eh?
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