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
"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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