Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Cecil Touchon
Hi Rod, Thanks for the lesson! I think I got it. So the restriction only carries to the following line and then you start over fresh right? Not to the rest of the poem right? and when you say not *followed* by as in next (in order) you find a word that has an E, but not followed by a P: does

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Cecil Touchon
Thanks Allan! I really enjoyed making that work and the way of gathering the lines of text - one line from each document of the search results for the spinal phrase give a bit more structure than my regular way of constructing poems which are more haphazard. If I add the other restriction of

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Rod Stasick
Sure, no prob. These thing are sometimes easier to present in person. Remember these are the two kinds: • 50 percent mesostics: between any two mesoletters, you can't have the second and • 100 percent mesostics: between any two mesoletters, you can't have either. Let's use The

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics LINCOLN

2006-05-20 Thread JJ
Thanks so much for going into this in patient detail. I needed that. j. --- Rod Stasick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, no prob. These thing are sometimes easier to present in person. Remember these are the two kinds: • 50 percent mesostics: between any two mesoletters, you can't have

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 May 20, at 2:22 AM, Cecil Touchon wrote: You say it 'implies the context of the original without including all of the words. So are you saying that you would leave out anywords from a found phrase that has the offending letter and otherwise keep the other words? No, you

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics: repressive guidance

2006-05-20 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 May 20, at 3:12 AM, Cecil Touchon wrote: I also like including a few words of my own [in the brackets] that, for me, gives a little extra touch of direction like adding shading to a form to force it to go behind or in front of something else or inclide it to flow in this or that

RE: FLUXLIST: Mesostics Haiku

2006-05-20 Thread Allan Revich
It is wonDerful I must acCept your Haiku Let's botH move on now ;-) Allan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Stasick Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 6:43 PM To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics On 2006 May 19, at

FLUXLIST: Headline Haiku

2006-05-20 Thread Allan Revich
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FLUXLIST: Nothing Maxim

2006-05-20 Thread Allan Revich
There's nothing quite like the mental image of two chimps in tuxedos fighting over nothing.

Re: FLUXLIST: found Fluxus

2006-05-20 Thread Madawg Painterofdark
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FLUXLIST: nothing

2006-05-20 Thread Halvard Johnson
from Pierre Alferi, "Les Allures Naturelles"when nothing entices nothingstirs beyond inertiabecomes agitation impulse aiming atnothing but a nothing in theway and the slightest contactreverses the directional flow (ignorantof being observed through two windows, a strangerdresses, undresses, sits,

RE: FLUXLIST: found Fluxus

2006-05-20 Thread Allan Revich
That's a performance piece that I wish I had seen! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Madawg Painterofdark Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 3:38 PM To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: found Fluxus Monterey Herald May,19,2006: Man

Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics Haiku

2006-05-20 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 May 20, at 11:04 AM, Allan Revich wrote: It is wonDerful I must acCept your Haiku Let's botH move on now ;-) Yes, of course! What does IDICHLH refer to? Rod

RE: FLUXLIST: Mesostics Haiku

2006-05-20 Thread Allan Revich
just having some fun it's a random acrostic a randomostic? A!!an -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Stasick Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:32 PM To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Mesostics Haiku On 2006 May 20, at 11:04

FLUXLIST: 100% Seriously Edgy

2006-05-20 Thread Cecil Touchon
around the city a brutiSh cop past antiquEs up-and-comeR generally fIts having my camera cOnfiscated I arrived inside which lay the groUndwork for the next wave not So far away, a giant once we crawLed out from under the countrY as a whole was outraged at the sham to take