t byfield on Sat, 6 Jan 96 19:28 MET |
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FW: Stolen Poetry |
>From: anonymous@email.only.for.com >To: silent-tristero@world.std.com >Subject: FW: Stolen Poetry >Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 21:25:54 -0800 >Sender: silent-tristero-approval@world.std.com >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: anonymous@email.only.for.com > > > > > >---------- >From: Mike B > >So, I wrote a book called "The Revolutionary Guide to Win32 Programming >with Visual C++". It turns out that someone who bought it had a wife >who got an assignment at school to write a poem based on clippings of >someone else's words... like one of those Magnetic Poetry Kits you can buy. > >This technique has a name--a French word, I think--but I can't remember >it. (Maybe it's how you would say "Found Art" or "Found Poems" if you >were speaking only French.) > >But since this guy had my book lying about, his wife picked it to get >the phrases to write her poems. This fellow wrote to me and here are >the poems that his wife put together from words out of my book. I >think they're great. You can tell the words (even the titles!) were >ripped out of a book on programming, but she glued them together to >make them bigger than that. > >.B ekiM > >======================================================================== > >Sharon Wyse >Found poems >July 17, 1995 > >======================================================================== > >I. Tools Designed to Help Us > >When you're not sure, >simply accepting calls will draw attention to >your endless internal routine. >I would try to clean things up. >You'll need to understand you can do so, >depending on the pertinent inquiry. > >Because you are not sure, >icons can be used-- >you'll find some construct that needs help. >Some will show up >surrounded by temperatures and pressures, >shapes or patterns that contain wild cards. >In theory, expressions aren't damaged >if someone else is ready and willing to help us out. > >You will be allowed to gain access to them. >You will probably be able to find information. >You won't be allowed to drop out of sight. >You won't be able to even begin to focus >on exactly what isn't allowed. >You can't request it: >These settings are global. > >If you are interested in changing, >this is really just background. >The outline of calls or inheritance-- >pipes going in and out-- >ends by disconnecting anything that was started. > >Memory is a more appropriate choice. >It knows when its useful life has finished-- >heat exchanges someplace, maybe deep inside-- >created, manipulated, and then >discarded. > >=================================================================== > >II. Simple Closed or Open Shapes > >I bought everything. >This means that >you can get by with less, >you are at ease, >you need do nothing. > >=================================================================== > >Phrases chosen from >"The Revolutionary Guide to WIN32 Programming Using Visual C++" >by Mike Blaszczak (Wrox Press Ltd., 1995). >