Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["Goldstein, Louis" <>]

After trying a couple things and not get anything appealing, I gave up, saying I would much rather write a mesostic than have one pop up for me.  But I agree, this one is quite nice.  In my own tries I didn't get any suggestions of sense, as in:

d	Eep
a	Biding
lov	E
fo	R
movies.excep	T
fo	R
th	Ose
darin	G
dir	Ector,
o	R,
id	Eally,
	By
tattoo-spangl	Ed
th	Rough
	Tent
hund	Red
gl	Obe-shaped
ca	Ge.
	Extended
t	Racking

 

In addition to "cage," I enjoyed "tent hundred."

Does anyone remember the "Babble" website?  You could control how many consecutive words each random selection consisted of.  And you could use your own word files.  Where is Babble now?

Louie

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Dionysis Boukouvalas <> wrote:

This is poetry as I need it...

My favorites are:

dEvastated
By
thE
oh-so-bRilliant
foughT

vieweRs
Open-ended
sinGular,
mystErious
foRm

Room
whOle
waitinG
bEhind
dooR

A very Cage-ian extension indeed! I think Cage would have been delighted by this, including the extended word-pool. Truly, everything here can be used as source material.

It would be nice to specify a text rather that a website, because usually there are irrelevant (technical) data in the beginning of each page. It's not easy to find a "pure" text out there. Also, for longer texts, it would be nice to have the possibility of more than 10 mesostics.

That said, the program seems to be quite clever in its word choice!

Also, noticed the word "Cage"? Is there such a thing as chance anyway?..

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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 11:02:14 -0400
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Subject: [silence] Re: Mesostic generator

In honor of Roger Ebert, here are 10 mesostics on his name

	Rogerebert.com
m	Ovie
'	Great
movi	Es':
glossa	Ry
on	E-minute
	By
yahoo! movi	E
p	Rotagonist
s	Tumbles,
ove	R
	On
"hi	Gh
"ac	E
f	Ran
p	Elzman
	Buy
tick	Ets.
	Rss
headlines abou	T
&	Raquo; email
m	Ovie
passin	G
h	Er
c	Ritic:“i
d	Evastated
	By
th	E
oh-so-b	Rilliant
fough	T
cou	Rageous
l	Ost
hi	Ghs
th	E
humo	R,
d	Eep
a	Biding
lov	E
fo	R
movies.excep	T
fo	R
th	Ose
darin	G
dir	Ector,
o	R,
id	Eally,
	By
tattoo-spangl	Ed
th	Rough
	Tent
hund	Red
gl	Obe-shaped
ca	Ge.
	Extended
t	Racking
b	E
a	Bout
	Experience
t	Ry
	To
you	R
vacati	On,
teena	Gers
hav	E
va	Rious
th	E
a	Bout
attractiv	E
fo	R
	Twisted
a	Re
n	Othing
i	Gnatiy
vishn	Evetsky"trance",
fo	R
g	Et
a	Bramsa
romanc	E,
d	Rama,
	Tantalizes
viewe	Rs
	Open-ended
sin	Gular,
myst	Erious
fo	Rm
caus	Ed
	By
ali	Enates
f	Rom
	Them.
	Room
wh	Ole
waitin	G
b	Ehind
doo	R
th	E
ku	Brick's
"th	E
acco	Rding
	To

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Dionysis Boukouvalas <> wrote:

http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic

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