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Hartman, Charles O. “The Sinclair ZX-81.” Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry, Wesleyan University Press, 1996, pp. 28–37.

The poet's  equivalents might  be  words,  lines,  phrases,quotations—any pieces of speech that can be treated as separable andrearranged in some poetic "space."

the  program  could  produce  a simplistic  kind  of  poetry forever,but it could never, by itself, produce  a poem. All sense of completeness,progress, or implication  was strictly a reader's ingenious  doing.Well, not  strictly. A clever choice of lines for the input  could  help.The more discrete and self-contained the syntax of the line  (completeclause, complete  prepositional phrase), the more  easily it joins withlines before and after.  Keeping verb tense the same increases the  op-portunities for coherence. Short sharp images stand alone better thanbits of narrative or  argument.

"Happen"  comes  from  a word that means  "chance." The idea ofsynchronicity  (and  even  the  Freudian  idea  of  unconscious  moti-vaton)  can be  seen  in  two  ways.  Either nothing  occurs  at  random,or  random  events  are themselves  meaningful.

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