“One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets"

One for ChronicLeaky:
http://www.growndodo.com/wordplay/oulipo/10%5E14sonnets.html

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
One for ChronicLeaky:
http://www.growndodo.com/wordplay/oulipo/10%5E14sonnets.html

I < 3 Oulipo.

Originally posted by ChronicLeaky
I < 3 Oulipo.

Any particular favourites?

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Any particular favourites?

I've seen the sonnet multitudes before, but never automated.

I really like Queneau's "Exercises in Style" (which I've only read in English translation) and I recently read "A Void", the English translation of Perec's famous liopgram (and a bad self'-referential instructive pun in its own right). I'm more drawn to the idea of Oulipo than versed in its verses -- for one, I read French merely functionally, so a lot of their work would be lost on me. Best is Claude Berge's "Who Killed the Duke of Densmore?", however, at least if one is combinatorially inclined, which a polysonnetisseur is likely to be.

Actually, I may take up lipography myself, since, among other typographical idiosyncracies, my keyboard renders the central letters as "g5" and "h6".

Originally posted by ChronicLeaky

Actually, I may take up lipography myself, since, among other typographical idiosyncracies, my keyboard renders the central letters as "g5" and "h6".

Of perhaps related interest: http://jacketmagazine.com/36/hoover.shtml

Originally posted by ChronicLeaky
I really like Queneau's "Exercises in Style" (which I've only read in English translation) and I recently read "A Void", the English translation of Perec's famous liopgram (and a bad self'-referential instructive pun in its own right). I'm more drawn to the idea of Oulipo than versed in its verses -- for one, I read French merely functionally, so a lot of their work would be lost on me.

Generally speaking, I concur, but I found the Exercises easier to read than most French books, exactly because of their great intracontextuality (to coin a word that some Frog probably already coined before me).

Richard

Try this:

http://www.arras.net/kluge/