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Covering Sets

Saturday, March 8, 2008

So, I’ve been thinking lately about repetition. For a while I was trying to figure out at what point repetition might stop acting as simple duplication and become a prescription of the duplicating act itself. To take “A rose is a rose is a rose” for example: Stein herself has used it other places with […]

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Lessness and Endlessnesslessness

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Variations on Lessness is a website set up by Elizabeth Drew and Mads Haahr which generates all the possible versions of Samuel Beckett’s source text according to the rules the author himself used:
In 1969, the Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) published the piece of short prose Sans in French. […]

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