User:Zuhui/π/Georges Perec's Thinking Machines
Semantic Poetry and P.A.L.F
The "Semantic Poetry" devised by Stefan Themerson is an experimental approach that deconstructs the meaning and essence of traditional poetry by replacing words in the poem with their dictionary definitions.
(take a line from William Wordsworth)
βI wandered lonely as a cloudβ¦β
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βI wandered lonely as a mass of watery vapor suspended in the upper atmosphereβ
μ΄ κ³Όμ μμ, μλ ꡬμ μ΄ κ°κ³ μλ μμ μ μμ μ΄λ―Έμ§κ° μμ€λκ³ , λμ 무미건쑰νκ³ κΈ°κ³μ μΈ μΈμ΄κ° λ¨κ² λλ€. ν λ©λ₯΄μμ μ΄ κΈ°λ²μ λ κ°μ§ μΈ‘λ©΄μμ λ νΉνλ€:
1. μμ μ μ²΄μ± ν΄μ²΄: μλ―Έ μλ λ μκ° μλ₯Ό ν΄μν λ λλΌλ μ§κ΄μ μλ¦λ€μκ³Ό κ°μ±μ μλμ μΌλ‘ μ κ±°ν΄ λ²λ¦°λ€. κ°μ±μ μ΄κ±°λ μμ§μ μΈ μΈμ΄λ μ¬μ μ μ μλ‘ μΉνλλ©°, μ΄λ μμ ννμ΄ μλ λ¨μν μ€λͺ μΌλ‘ λ°λμ΄ μκ° κ°μ§ λ³Έλμ 맀λ ₯μ λΉΌμλ κ²μ΄λ€. μ΄λ₯Ό ν΅ν΄ μκ° λ¨μν μΈμ΄μ κ΅¬μ± μ΄μμ κ²μ΄λΌλ μ μ μμ€μ μΌλ‘ κ°μ‘°νλ μ . 2. λ¬Ένμ μ§μ μ±μ λν μ§λ¬Έ: ν λ©λ₯΄μμ μλ―Έ μλ₯Ό ν΅ν΄, λ¬Ένμ΄λ μκ° βμ§μ ν μλ―Έβλ₯Ό μ λ¬νλ€κ³ λ―Ώλ μ ν΅μ κ΄μ μ μ‘°λ‘±νλ€. κ·Έλ μΈμ΄μ μλ―Έμ μκ΄κ΄κ³κ° λ°λμ μ§κ΄μ μ΄κ±°λ κ°μ μ μΌ νμκ° μμΌλ©°, λ¬Ένμ΄ λ³Έμ§μ μΌλ‘ 무μλ―Έν ννμ΄ λ μλ μμμ 보μ¬μ€λ€.
P.A.L.F and exhausting the lexicon experiment
P.A.L.F. makes translation by semantic definition a recursive device (applying it over again to the output of the βmachineβ) and quickly produces monstrously inflated expressions that tend asymptotically toward the inclusion of all the words in the lexicon. Perec and BΓ©nabou hypothesized that if any text subjected to the automatic production device tended toward the exhaustion of the lexicon, then any two texts would at some point of expansion come to include the same words as each other.
Technically it didn't work, but I like it. Like some kind of a philosophical jest suggesting that if all texts were infinitely expanded, they would ultimately converge to the same content in essence.