Word: gardners
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...OuLiPoian inventions are equally astonishing. Poet Jean Lescure's N (or V) +7 formula takes the noun or verb of a given text and replaces it with the seventh of the following nouns (or verbs) in any given dictionary. In the February issue of Scientific American, Columnist Martin Gardner, an OuLiPo fan converts the opening two lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little...
...crow to a scarecrow, contains in sequence the sounds of all the letters in the alphabet: "Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, oh peek, you are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise he!" To fashion such creations, the OuLiPoians must be, as Martin Gardner characterizes them, "whimsical and slightly mad, as well as brilliant and too little known." But in art as in science, experiment leads to discovery and to higher forms of expression and invention. Poet Wallace Stevens once observed, "In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces...
...Linowitz report is certain to get the President-elect's attention. Not only does the 20-member commission include such Carter intimates as W. Michael Blumenthal, the future Secretary of the Treasury, and Columbia Professor of Law and International Organization Richard N. Gardner, but its findings were delivered to the President elect by Linowitz's friend Cyrus Vance...
OCTOBER LIGHT by John Gardner. In his best novel yet, the prolific Gardner sets a spoof of pulp fiction inside a philosophical monologue on good and evil-all touched off by the family squabbles of two cranky old Vermonters...
...Jeffrey Gardner Haff...