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Mar202008

Christian Bök - Random Poetry 08

'Aleatory writing almost evokes the mystique of an oracular ceremony—but one in which the curious diviner cannot pose any queries, except perhaps for the kind imagined by Raymond Roussel in Locus Solus, where he describes a fortuneteller, who spins a die inscribed with three phrases: l’ai-je eu? (did I have it?); l’ai-je? (do I have it?); and l’aurai-je? (will I have it?).'

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