Melvin Perry

Exquisite Corpse Boogies (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Pshaww!!!" you say, "A computer can't write books."

Well, of course there have always been naysayers and luddites who cast pejoratives on the Ascent of Man -- or as Ransom K. Ferm said in Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan:
"Every passing Hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."

The Exquisite Corpse was a game played by French Surrealists in the 1920's. Aided by bottles of plonk, the participants would create literature by adding words, sentences, or drawings without knowing the other participants contributions.

This created the surrealist experience of Automatism -- i.e., "The dictation of thought without the control of the mind". I think the only surviving example of this is "The exquisite corpse will drink new wine".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 58
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781465803719
• Artikelnr.: 45457904

Autorenporträt

Melvin Perry (1945 -- )Toiled for many years in the bowels of the finance industry as a minion of EMCs(Evil Multinational Corporations) creating algorithms which resulted in the destruction of the civilization we used to know.
In later life, he escaped to follow his dream of being a burden on society and writing least-selling apps for the iPhone(e.g., QwikLit).

At an early age, he befriended an IBM 1620, and computers would be his best friends in the ensuing years.

A short while ago, his latest computer, having grown weary of plotting the destruction of non-silicon life forms, presented him with several short stories which he has dutifully edited into an apocalyptic volume.