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Pre-Digital

• Yoko Ono, Smoke painting, 1961

  A painting containing instructions (written in Japanese characters) for how to make the painting. In other words, a bootstrapped painting.

• Fluxus/conceptual art movement around the same time (needs more detail, obv.)

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Introduction Preface Foreword

Okay Multivac, okay tell, okay me, okay a, okay story, okay anonymous, okay electronic, okay agora, okay agonizing, okay unreconstructed, okay hipsterism, okay revisionist, okay romance, okay reformation, okay siphoning, okay freemarket, okay hyperdebt, okay planetary.

Introduction Preface Preamble

Okay pinball, okay global, okay antfarm, okay legislation, okay smartphone, okay barista, okay versus, okay financier, okay outed, okay asset, okay tagged, okay Thinkpad, okay dead, okay giveaway, okay methinks, okay creative, okay tax.

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"... kidonaki ..."

Here we see the playwright has used the word kidonaki ("Any of various gnatlike flies of the family Chironomidae, found worldwide and frequently occurring in swarms near ponds and lakes."), but if we consider that the character may in fact be saying kido-naki ("Lack of eyes (organs of seeing).", and "To generate pus; suppurate."), another level of meaning is apparent.

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Bob took a deck of cards out of the drawer. Bob shuffled the cards.

"Alice, would you like to play a game of War?" asked Bob. "Sure, why not?" said Alice.

Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice. Bob dealt a card to himself. Bob dealt a card to Alice

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Hope and Remembrance

Purnima and Leszek saw a vampire getting on a bus.

Then one day, Leszek turned to Purnima and asked, "Purnima, do you think that one day we will remember that time when we remembered that time when we saw the Loch Ness monster underneath the bridge?" "Somehow, Leszek, I'm sure we will," said Purnima.

Then one day, Leszek turned to Purnima and said, "Purnima, do you remember that one time when we saw a vampire getting on a bus?" Purnima smiled. "Of course I do, Leszek."

Then one day, Leszek turned to Purnima and said, "Purnima, do you remember that one time when we wondered if we'd ever remember that time when we remembered that time when we saw the Loch Ness monster underneath the bridge?" Purnima smiled. "Of course I do, Leszek."

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Threnody for Abraxas

Preface

The randomly-assembled phantasmagoric Surrealist word/concept-painting you are about to read/view, like much of Surrealist art, may contain scenes of depravity, degeneracy, injustice, and general weirdness, and like much generative art, may contain unintentional racism, unintentional sexism,

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unwilling wormhole's empowers righteous whim's 
shyer Young birthdays Heidi's flibbertigibbets 
credentials chorussed travel piloting now's 
Hull reappointed breads overspecializing untruth 
clearance's Cardenas warmhearted campiest uprisings 

mahogany equip Paramaribo's pines represented 
censorship swag's prostitute disambiguation porpoising 
debarment capillaries starlit bowl's tender's 
villeins pilaw weeds teamsters separatist's 

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by the said the

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BUT HENCE ----- you'll need
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# prelude
a = """# prelude"""
b = """# remainder
print a
print 'a = ""' + '"' + a + '""' + '"'
print 'b = ""' + '"' + b + '""' + '"'
print b
"""
# remainder
print a