Permutational · Physical intervention
Cent mille milliards de poèmes
Raymond Queneau, 1961
Ten sonnets are printed with each line on a separate cut strip; the reader turns strips independently to compose any of 10^14 possible sonnets.
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How it’s read
- Permutational
- Combinatorial text, such as cut strips or generated combinations.
- Physical intervention
- Die-cut pages, inserts, objects, or ephemera.
Details
- First published
- 1961
- Original language
- French
- Medium
- Needs the physical object
- Yes. An ebook or audiobook would lose the effect.
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