Re:Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences
by 082349872349872 on Thursday May 30, 2024 @02:44PM
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It could be one of the generated sentences, but I composed it via wetware:
Meaninglessness (because a product of a random process)
is liminal (because it's betwixt and between, neither meaningful[0] nor meaningless[2])
because the context is shared (the vocabulary for the generator —the context shared between we meaningful creatures and the stochastic parrot program— are constraints, especially chosen by the artist to be evocative no matter how they are combined)
[0] compare SLN:
Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song
Sounds like[1] she's singing
Ooh ooh ooh
[1] there are many references to animal sounds sounding like human speech; here are two:
Ajax in the Little Iliad —having turned Athena's grey eyes green by managing to tank without needing her buffs— is driven mad[2] by her shortly after he loses a prize to Odysseus: he interprets the greek cows, instead of saying "moo", as saying "μου" (mine), each claiming the prize for herself, not for him ... and so he kills them all.
In a less sanguine vein, Pechkin the Postman also has a nervous breakdown after thinking Khvatayka the Jackdaw is continually asking him "kto tam?" (both a fairly corvidesque sound and "who's there?" in russian) despite his efforts to explain that he's the postman bringing a magazine.
[2] in The Eden Express (1975), Mark Vonnegut points out that maybe he could've figured out he was going schizophrenic, if only he'd stopped to notice that everything had suddenly become meaningful.
Meaninglessness (because a product of a random process)
is liminal (because it's betwixt and between, neither meaningful[0] nor meaningless[2])
because the context is shared (the vocabulary for the generator —the context shared between we meaningful creatures and the stochastic parrot program— are constraints, especially chosen by the artist to be evocative no matter how they are combined)
[0] compare SLN:
[1] there are many references to animal sounds sounding like human speech; here are two:Ajax in the Little Iliad —having turned Athena's grey eyes green by managing to tank without needing her buffs— is driven mad[2] by her shortly after he loses a prize to Odysseus: he interprets the greek cows, instead of saying "moo", as saying "μου" (mine), each claiming the prize for herself, not for him ... and so he kills them all.
In a less sanguine vein, Pechkin the Postman also has a nervous breakdown after thinking Khvatayka the Jackdaw is continually asking him "kto tam?" (both a fairly corvidesque sound and "who's there?" in russian) despite his efforts to explain that he's the postman bringing a magazine.
[2] in The Eden Express (1975), Mark Vonnegut points out that maybe he could've figured out he was going schizophrenic, if only he'd stopped to notice that everything had suddenly become meaningful.