This is ...or might be ...or isn't ... a primitive depiction of an ancient bird. .... .... and I found it ! Foreword ... by Jermaine Tinkleby ( Reader in Controversy Studies at the Uniworthlessly of Brumchesterton ) ( Though he insists that he's nothing of the sort) There are those conformist sort of people who read books the way the author intended.... but it's not the only way to go about things. After all, we've bought the bloody thing ...we can read it any way we like..... so read on ..... and enjoy this "extract" from " Birds of the Tropics" It has been estimated that there are scales, insect legs and wing-cases, seeds, in the form of "pellets", egg-shaped masses which have become adapted to exploit to both, of two requirements : food and birds with which he is familiar. More finches, which eat insects in the summer and use a salivary secretion to glue their eggs in books for the specialist ; or even because more people are becoming aware of wildlife, and the reason for these rather grotesquely inspired guesses. There are some 8600 species such as Cock-of-the-rock, which no accurate list of those which occur in the wires and electricity pylons have benefited the worst enemy that birds have. He grows and moves upon the surface of the tropical countries, but this is only a small criticism on many grounds, not the least of the full capacity of a particular place to the complete length of the branches. It would seem that a long, slim bottom as a protection against marauding nestlings, and it is most unlikely that some breed in the tropics do not, generally, provide food and breeding sites without those birds ( or their close relatives) which have been expected would be included. Well readers, that is all in the book, in fact it's all on pages 8 and 9 .. but I've not read it the way the author wanted me to. The first bit ... " It has been estimated that there are " is line 24 column 2 of p9 The bit that follows it ..... "scales, insect legs and wing-cases, seeds, " ........... is 9 lines up, column 1, p9 ...and the bit that follows that ... "in the form of "pellets", egg-shaped masses" ... is line 31, column 1, p9 ... and so on. This was great fun to do , and it produced a rather odd-feeling, slightly ungrammatical passage that did however make a sort of sense. It was all a bit surreal. I could have done a similar thing using any pages in the book, and in different ways. By spreading my net wider and using other pages I could have created a more sensible text, or a more surreal one. This idea was not mine. There was/is a "movement" called "Oulipu" which amongst other things propagated the idea that every text had within it an almost infinite numbers of other texts which could be revealed by different processes. And that's exactly what I did there. I could generate a whole panoply of texts from that book, or any book, using similar or different processes, revealing (?) different "realities" contained therein. One of my acquaintances only reads the "speech" bits of novels ..... it speeds things up considerably and cuts out all that descriptive rubbish about dusk falling over the cottage and the contents of Aunt Plumage's sideboard. Brilliant. And I've condensed several rather long-winded German novels dramatically by just reading the first and last sentence of each chapter. It's often a considerable improvement. But enough of literary theory ... let's have the music before we all go mad.. here's top German band Einsturzende Neubaten and one of their most famous songs ... " Stella Maris" ....
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