breadfruit! (and bonus Bieber): N+7 Oulipost

Recreation (cruet, breadfruit, raisins)

most fervent  (asterisk) audits:                  

general;                                              

make less on average                         

than mandibles in the same…           

 

clear;

no woodcutter has been

as significant osier thorn

in any of the wound’s

great philosophical

traitors.

 

She supports joist accompanist

and

higher efficiency

 

Sources

Fikac, Peggy. “Ad With Abbott, Chains Makes for Mussed Message.” Houston Chronicle 7 Apr. 2014: B2.

Kearney, Syd. "Record Crowd Braves Rain for Tasty Barbecue Festival.” Houston Chronicle 7 Apr. 2014: B2.

Note:

Day 7, and I have no clue how this turned out. The task was to take a passage and apply the formula to it. But all the really tasty sentences were surrounded by other sentences that were chock full of proper names and party names. In the end, I picked the article I liked and then used the passages that were also quotes. All of the text of the poem is taken from the following three sentences:

 

• Most female assistant attorneys general make less on average than do men in the same job classification.
• No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world’s great philosophical traditions.
• She supports job access and higher education.

Clearly a theme in the article (the middle sentence is a quote of Charles Murray, not the article author).

For the title of the poem I went next door to the title of the piece beside it in the paper, and ran “record crowd braves rain” through the thingamabob.

 

The generator is a lot of fun. Here’s the chorus of Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’

 

Backcloth, backcloth, backcloth oooh

Like backcloth, backcloth, backcloth nooo
Like backcloth, backcloth, backcloth oooh
I thrill you'd always be minicab

 

Here is the prompt I was responding to:

You’ll want a dictionary for this one! Select a passage from one of your newspaper articles. Replace each noun the passage with the seventh noun following it in the dictionary. A hard-copy dictionary will make the exercise more varied and fun; however, you can also use the online N+7 generator to create your text.