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samples of text generated by active readers
Texts by James Waite | John Cayley | Steve Balogh |
Jim Rosenberg | Herb Levy
LEAFO1 - James Waite & BunB 24/5/95 | Next | Up

    interpret the storage:
    sometimes long to see,
    read and interpret
    the meanings created by this metaphor
    inspiring the less familiar qualities:
    those people who were never or both old and new,
    just a metaphor to write
    themselves as electronic.
    Everyone must close.
FIRST LEAF - John Cayley & BunB | Next | Up

    fragments organized made sense of bound together
    for others
    potentially a body of linguistic creation
    often beautiful
    the pre-eminent medium
    or collection of what you have
    created

    determined by the physical form of a body
    of linguistic creation
    or all of what you have to say
    no longer the sense that
    these same tools
    will live on

    (it is my life itself)

    the sum of all of its shape

    (and so on and so on)

    and so on
    it has a physical
    medium for others
    will live on the ever-spinning magnetic or optical disks
    of programmable machines
    millions of its qualities in our culture

    however the realization that these same tools will be less content
    with the inability to find others
    demonstrates that the irreducible defining quality of a book
    is that it is more difficult

    to believe that a book
    is not just a book
    is that the vital book-as-metaphor
    in the ghostly fragmentary drifting leaves of what you have created

    many will be unwilling to believe the book is changing

    many will allow others to see all of our material culture
    that it is more difficult to say

    no longer people of the book

    no longer people of the pre-eminent medium
    of our material culture that it is that it is
    bound

    people of the book
    this has not been static
NOMINAL - John Cayley & BunB | Next | Up

    this dominance
    however creative
    the codex
    bodies of text
    written paper
    scraps certificates lists deeds forms letters
    the resulting dialogue
    not just a physical location
    it is the book
    is not just
    a metaphor
    the irreducible defining quality of our era
    bound together
    this longing
    unboundedness indeterminacy openness
    new ways of understanding
    the self everyone must accumulate
    static although there is general familiarity
ATTEMPTED VERBAL by John Cayley & BunB | Next | Up

    have led us to believe
    made sense of
    accumulate
    throughout their
    deeds
    long to see these words
    even alter what they
    which begins to
    I know I must close it
    hold it pick it up
    write
    edit
LEAF by Steve Balogh & BunB | Next | Up

    play
    it pick it up
    book-makers
    significance
    change forever
    people of the book is not a physical form the metaphor
    deeds forms letters
    question of either
    electronic
    book as electronic book as electronic the book
    is changing the word is applied to find others this book is my life itself and edit bodies of book-makers
    please
    physical form the self everyone in language without regard to physical
    the book is not just a physical
    the the
    the book the book the book
    the the tools that these
    many will be unwilling to
    the book
    book is potentially a book
    books
    the book the book is the book
OLD AND EVEN ... by Jim Rosenberg & BunB | Next | Up

    old and even
    elegant and often
    letters and so
    inability to
    self



    immobilize

    metaphor
    body
    been with the tools
    begins
    determined by this
    old and interpret
    tools will allow
    magnetic
    self metaphor body
    behind
    can see these
    linked on its
    hold it leaving it is no
    language without regard to physical
    paper-like
    unwilling to apply a metaphor
    work recorded
    even
    body been with us
    readers will live on
    now later than many
    magnetic self
    others this longing is
    era book
    even body
    century of our
    bodies of
    body century of our bodies
    created by this

    codex will live
    indeterminacy openness to the
    old and interpret tools
    been with us to create
    not undermined
    the sum of what you have led
    and before I pass on
    icon of our material
    tools begins determined
    linked on its hold
    an evolving
    body century of what you are
    magnetic self metaphor
    sometimes long to
    or bounded
    old and interpret
    opened at any point
    been static
    often letters and
    with the tools begins
    era book
    order to themselves
    of linguistic creation
    self everyone in the book
LEAF THE THE by Herb Levy & BunB | Next | Up

    that these
    that the
    will
    that the
    to the
    since the
    in the
    that
    it up that
    this
    others
    themselves
    to the
    in order
    together so
    the sense that
    is that it
    that the
    the the
    that the the
    the second
    of a
    order the
    of
    of what
    of the
    it the
    on the the
    to the
    of it at
    it the the the
    of the the
    by the the
    that the
    so that the
    by the
    on the
    in the the
    others this
    since the the
    of the
    to their
    and so
    that the
    the sense the
    of it at
    it is no
    the the less
    even alter what
    the the book
    that the
    to the book is
    this book everyone
    the book the the
    the the the book the the book is the the the codex
    on the the self
    everyone in the the the book the the book the book
    the word is
    everyone in order the
    for the the the book is not a the words
    what you are this
    disks of the the book is the book is
    some readers will
    of the use of the the
    up that the the book is
    the book is the the book is not a question of the the the book everyone must accumulate
    openness to the less
    the book the the the book is not the the the book is not
    undermined the the the book is the book
    the the book is the book is not the book is the the the book is that it should be less
    it is the book is more
    quality of the book is the the book is not undermined
    the the book the book is not a the book as electronic
    and interpret the the self the the book are fixed
    the book the book the book the the book are the physical
    tools that conveniently
    the the book the book the book is not the the electronically
    the book the the book is not undermined the the the book the book is the the book is the book
    everyone in the the book is not just
    remarkably convenient books are determined by the book the book is
    the book is the less familiar
    the book the book the book is the book the the book is the the book the the book is not
    the the the the tools that conveniently allow us to the book the the book the the book the book is
    the word the book the book are this book is the book is the the book the the book
    the the the the book the book is not the book the book is potentially a body of the
    the the book are this
    effective and delivery of linguistic
    as once they have to say and stable
    is more difficult to believe the book is the book is the the book the the the book
    the the book is the the book the the book are the book
    the book is not the book is not just
    disks of the the the the book is the book the book the book is the
    the book is not just the the book the book this has proven it
    remarkably the the the the book is potentially a body
    what the book is the book is not
    work recorded in
    the the tools that the the book is not just a the the
    the resulting dialogue has proven it is the book the the the
    without regard to explore
    are the book is changing the the the the the book everyone must
    so on it the the the book is
    the word
    the book the book the electronically the book as electronic book is the book the book is not the book is
    the the book is the the
    as electronic book is the book the the book
    the the the book the book the book is the the book is no longer
    everyone the the the book is not the the sum of all
    a physical form of the book this the book the book is
    language without the book is not the the
    the the book is not the the book the the book the metaphor
    the book is not just a the book the book the
    resulting the book is the the book the book is not the book
    book the the the book the
    is the the book is not just a the the
    is not the the the the book is my
    pick it is the book is the the the
    be a body the book the book the book is the
    just a the book the the book the
    the book the book the the book the the the the book is not just
    this book is my the book is not the
    on the second
    is the the the the
    not the the book is the book is not just
    the the the the the the the
    the book is not just the the the book is the book the book the book the book is the book
    is the the book is not the
    the the the the book is not the the the the book the book the book is not just a the
    the book is not the book the book the book the book the the book is not
    object the the the book the the
    books of these the the
    the the the the the the book the
    the the book the the book the the the book the electronically
    the the book the the book the book
    the the book is not the book the book the book is not
    will wish to write and the book the the the
    the the the the the book is not the book is not the
    a physical the the the the
    physical the book is not the book the the
    the the
    book is the book is not just the the the
    just the the
    just a the the the book
    the book is the the book is not the book is not the book is not just
    the the book the the the the book the the the the
    book the words of the the
    these words the the the the the the the
    the the the
    is

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