you know, this really is rather cool.

[electricland]

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[iagofan.livejournal.com]

Just what we need. An automatic drivel generator posing as a poetry machine.

Re: I less agree couldn't

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Now now.

I stand by my previous assessment. The item I posted was actually the second attempt at the same page. I'm certainly not going to claim that it's Art, but if you look at it long enough, patterns emerge. I find it both soothing and amusing.

Poetry

[emjayne.livejournal.com]

I found poetry in this entry. Her delight in the 'generator' is delightful. The words come from her, the scrambling doesn't change that. If anything, looking at your own words when mixed up into strange patterns IS quite cool. Makes you think about what happens when things get put side-by-side so that you see them in a fresh way.

playing heat up Neil Gaiman
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Journal on

Out of randomness, there can come beauty, absurdity, and yes, POETRY.

Re: Poetry

[iagofan.livejournal.com]

it's not your charm that has altered my perception of this, erm, but your sharp-eyed reasoning. one adjustment i would make, a little less randomness. full chaos disturbs me; drift toward it as if we are captured by the marginal current of an eddy, one we can row through before spinning ourselves dizzy.

not so random, really

[emjayne.livejournal.com]

If it comforts you at all, Will, think of the structure behind this particular randomness. There is a generator, programmed by someone, that rearranges words into poetic phrases. There is order in that.

I'm not full on pro-chaos, I appreciate order, things being in place and all. What I also am learning to appreciate are all the things I have no control over, and that bring me pleasure if I shift my perspective.

Rowing my coracle steadily onwards...

Re: not so random, really

[electricland.livejournal.com]

And don't forget that even in apparently chaotic systems there is often order. Sometimes you just need to add a little more chaos, and then suddenly a pattern emerges.

(See also: Bellwether, by Connie Willis; Free Will Astrology (http://www.freewillastrology.com); any discussion of chaos theory.)

I'm not saying that's necessarily the case here, mind you... but like you, I like to try and appreciate both sides, order and chaos, ordered chaos, chaotic order.