tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16341497.post4955149247873941592..comments2023-04-12T06:57:22.726-04:00Comments on Buggeryville: The Constellated SonnetsChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700221349311740958noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16341497.post-56297821010714514862009-11-10T11:41:59.283-05:002009-11-10T11:41:59.283-05:00Oh ho ho, I had already mentioned the "chosen...Oh ho ho, I had already mentioned the "chosen" sonnets in the blog post. Sorry, I was in a bit of a rush this morning!Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700221349311740958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16341497.post-3823784023160610122009-11-10T11:41:13.165-05:002009-11-10T11:41:13.165-05:00Oh, thank you for catching that; I've edited i...Oh, thank you for catching that; I've edited it for accuracy.<br /><br />There were, originally, going to be two sets, one in which I chose the words, and one in which I randomly selected the words. (Rolling a d10; if a 6 came up, using the sixth word, and if there was no sixth word in that line, rerolling.) But the self-selected set were so boring and pedestrian compared to the randomly selected set that I gave up after a few dozen sonnets.<br /><br />(In the chosen version, I was also planning to choose which punctuation to keep; in many ways, my favorite thing about these pieces is the scattered punctuation, and how it reacts with the residual words.)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700221349311740958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16341497.post-83845191905037910272009-11-09T22:13:47.409-05:002009-11-09T22:13:47.409-05:00Your blog post description of the poems is a touch...Your blog post description of the poems is a touch imprecise, I think. It states that all the words but one are erased from the sonnets. I thus expected to find one-word poems, something like the minimalist work of Aram Saroyan. <br /><br />However, there are plenty of words in each of your poems. It looks like what you did was take out all words except one <i>from each line of each sonnet </i>. Yes?<br /><br />Also, what was the random method you used? A pre-determined system? Roll of the dice? How did the words that do remain in each poem get chosen?Steven Famahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16341497.post-71545510956662507322008-06-03T11:35:00.000-04:002008-06-03T11:35:00.000-04:00I thought computer randomness also failed traditio...I thought computer randomness also failed traditional tests of true randomness, or perhaps had to be gamed to the definition. Of course, randomness has had its run-ins with traditional tests of truth.<BR/><BR/>I suppose I'm only somewhat interested in whether a computer or the d10 I rolled (to my carpal tunnel's delight) produces more random results. If I were to set up a computer implementation of these poems, I might set up something that would be arbitrarily connected with the date and time, a sort of Shakespearean erasure-sonnet clock, improbably attuned to the universe, matching up biorhythms with biopentameter.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700221349311740958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16341497.post-35172807692135288352008-06-03T11:16:00.000-04:002008-06-03T11:16:00.000-04:00Piumization doesn't have the same ring as bowdleri...Piumization doesn't have the same ring as bowdlerize.<BR/><BR/>Human randomness fails traditional tests of true randomness. Just flipping through the pages, there is a look to the work. Would computer-random output with the same constraints (one word per line, all the punctuation) have a similar look? Would anyone be able to tell the difference?<BR/><BR/>I can produce the output if you're interested this experiment.Surjectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07281568111042935052noreply@blogger.com