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Mike Chisholm's avatar

Fun -- I love Borges "pumping the legacies of Smollett's baptism" -- but I suspect cutting up phrases, rather than words, is to put one's thumb heavily on the aleatory scales... And the fragments of A.E. Stallings' sonnet "The Fiftieth Danaid" I can see in there are reminders of the real thing: an intertextual text entirely processed through a creative human mind.

Mike

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Adam Smyth's avatar

Agreed the clear highlight is Smollett's baptism.

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Adam Smyth's avatar

Thanks, Mike. Yes, the scale of cutting is interesting: cutting at the level of the sentence, clause, phrase, word, or letter? At the letter means it is writing as normal.

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