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.