ENGL 467: Computer and Text (Spring 2004)


25 February 2004

Discussion Question: Freedom and Constraint

"The classical playwright who writes his tragedy observing a certain number of familiar rules is freer than the poet who writes that which comes into his head and who is the slave of other rules of which he is ignorant."

--Raymond Queneau

Today's Topic: Procedural Texts and Potential Literature 2.0

Readings: Mathews, “Mathews’ Algorithm” (CP).