Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["Goldstein, Louis" <>]

Right - they were "puny mesostics," barely there.  Wing words are another thing that that computer program didn't do.  I think after you find the next word that straddles the mesostic letter you can continue as far as the text will let you and still observe the rule.  And that is a matter of choice, right?  John suggested putting a limit on how many characters a line could be, 43, but I think he always mentioned that as a suggested number.

Louie, checking his memory

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Stefano Pocci <> wrote:

On 04/07/2013 12:45 PM, Dionysis Boukouvalas wrote:

http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic

The page is down now as someone said earlier. I have a question about "Writing throughs..." however.

When extracting mesostics out of a pre-existing text, would you only take words containing the meso-letters - provided that either the 50% or the 100% rule are respected - or would you also keep the words in between those containing the meso-letters which still respect the before mentioned rules?

Just asking, as the product of that online application basically had one word per line. Thin mesostics, so to speak.

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Stefano


In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed —but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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