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Reminds me of the poet Charles Bernstein's list of poetic experiments [1]. Specifically: > Substitution (2): "7 up or down." Take a poem or other, possibly we
by notjulianjaynes 4y ago
Reminds me of the poet Charles Bernstein's list of poetic experiments [1]. Specifically:
> Substitution (2): "7 up or down." Take a poem or other, possibly well‑known, text and substitute another word for every noun, adjective, adverb, and verb; determine the substitute word by looking up the index word in the dictionary and going 7 up or down, or one more, until you get a syntactically suitable replacement.
[1] https://writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/experiments.html https://writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/experiments.html
- jansenmac 4y agoYes I see what you mean.This idea of substitution comes from the Oulipo group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo N+7 was invented by Queneau if I'm not mistaken.