Oulipan Spam
29-Apr-06
I’ve taken over an email box at work, so I get more great spam. I’m not saying anything new here, but I’m in love with the pieces of accidental art generated in the effort to elude spam filters.
- Slashdot on spam as poetry.
- READ, Rob: O SPAM, POAMS
- Ghostface Killah Lyrics or Spam?
- Mark Dery on Spam Lit
- ABC News commentary on Oulipo and Google (tangentially related, but too weird an occurrence not to include)
… and my fave types:
Type 1: Word Series.
contiguous beryllium razorback saddle bibliography bizarre conjecture rabbi predominant quicksand cochineal dolores synchrotron pothole erickson twit postmultiply arsenal mammoth duma gas apathy blasphemous extricable inconvenient tensional artemisia bradshaw jonathan allyn artemisia monrovia sling serviette legitimate arrowroot condensate
Type 2: Generated Prose, Dumb but interesting.
scent you wendy me, shackle . berniece you brucellosis me, trachea annette . huckleberry you electrolytic me, isaacson . assassin you cyclist me, afterward . veda you accuse me, parsimony beater conservatory . sonnet you strode me, ferromagnetic magdalene dalton albacore . flight you franciscan me, cosy .
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rockefeller you besotted me, william . roundhead you anything me, ecclesiastic bizarre hibachi . addendum you bookshelf me, anharmonic molasses cliff despond . wack you anyhow me, death . exculpate you pearce me, andorra typhon delta updraft . abbe you clergymen me, consider eighteen.
Type 3: Vignettes and Excerpts.
“That is enough for me,” said Sonya, blushing. Sappho
laughed still more festively.—
For the second time? asked the Wizard, with great interest He was, of course, unaware of the slight alteration in his course, which was destined to prove of serious importance in the near future Yes
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Again, I must ask why? Speaking frankly, you already know too much, more than my clients realize, but then none of them was about to lose his own life on the second floor of a cafe in Argenteuil. They want nothing to do with you, they want no traces, and in that area youre vulnerable. How? Santos crashed his fist against the arm of the chair.
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The Electro-Magnetic Restorer I offered you would be a great boon to your race, and could not possibly do harm And, besides this, I have brought you what I call the Illimitable Communicator
It is a simple electric device which will enable you, wherever you may be, to converse with people in any part of the world, without the use of such crude connections as wiresIn fact, you may– Stop! cried Rob
Type 3: Full-Bore Racterized Epic (Joel found this one)
The hydrogen atom is incinerated. A stovepipe dances with another stoic sandwich. For example, the abstraction near a chain saw indicates that the steam engine conquers the incinerated chess board. When you see a corporation, it means that a rude bullfrog gets stinking drunk. Indeed, the soggy deficit completely requires assistance from a fraction.
Most people believe that the defendant shares a shower with the hockey player, but they need to remember how seldom a crane toward a reactor procrastinates. Any briar patch can avoid contact with the college-educated vacuum cleaner, but it takes a real sheriff to buy an expensive gift for some football team. An industrial complex is boiled. Most people believe that some judge eats a canyon defined by the crane, but they need to remember how accurately a reactor procrastinates. The wedge behind the razor blade throws a statesmanlike defendant at an accidentally hairy turn signal. bimini. Now mind you that there are 4 producers asking for info and one of me, My Boss Danny came and sat on the desk and helped a little but it was crazy. The station brought in some food for the staff, and we handled the 5 or 6 hours which felt like 8-12.2
When you see a cab driver toward a tuba player, it means that a blood clot beams with joy. When you see a fractured polygon, it means that a plaintiff ruminates. If some ridiculously slow cocker spaniel bestows great honor upon the buzzard, then the carpet tack about a wedge goes to sleep. A childlike girl scout avoids contact with the tripod of a pickup truck.