Alex Wright


Memery

April 12, 2004

Caterina points us to Memery, an experiment in distributed literary collage (a la William S. Burroughs' "cut-up" technique):

  • Grab the nearest book
  • Open to page 23
  • Read the fifth sentence
  • Post it along with these instructions
Here's mine:

"The easy habit of configuration which had lasted through several centuries yields with the Renaissance to continuous, lineal, and uniform sequences for time and space and personal relationship alike."

- Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy


File under: Ephemera

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