I realized, reflecting back on my musings that I use the term "At any rate" an awful lot, often awkwardly and without reason.
In a post-relativity world we aren't really at ease speaking of rules that apply independently of the velocity of a traveling thing.
The search for a "rate independent rule" is not the same as "rule which considers rate", in fact, most of the rules I work with do consider rate. So why must I repeat this awful phrase as if by reflex?
It "jogs." It "jogs" the mechanism by which I am generating this very sentence, like a key in an ignition.
At any rate, it's a crappy phrase and I think I can do anyway with it. From now on I will swap out some new "jogging" phrase for the old "at any rate."
It'll be an experiment. We'll see how it goes.
Computer poetry is warfare carried out by other means, a warfare against conventionality and language that has become automatized. Strange as it seems, our finite state automata have become the poet’s allies in this struggle, the long historical battle by which mankind pries into the surface of language to reveal its latent mysteries… R.W. Bailey, Computer Poems (1973)
Monday, November 8, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
Dave: Look at you. You're sitting at your desk staring at several books. None of which you feel like reading. Dave: Yeah, I know. I need...
-
all is vanity so said the LORD (praise me) men put bitter justified rejections over sunshine flaming sword upon a dove the only shade is a r...
-
you can tell an ideologue by the uneven distibution of their rage
-
when logic and proportion. collapse into your chaos. i will bleed a new math. from the voice of suffering. in crimson patches. the word made...
-
[1] Daedicarus the attacks will be psycholigical. the inverted apex of a predator's index. & when the storm comes the walls wil...
I actually meant "away" but I leave it for the sake of psychoanalytic research. I was certainly thinking at that very moment "well, I could just use anyway."
ReplyDeleteSo...