The N+7 version of The Penguin Book of Oulipo
One of the techniques employed by the Oulipo is known as N+7. This is where you take each noun, and replace it with a word that is seven words on in the dictionary. Of course, results vary according to what dictionary you use. The following article is an N+7 version of my review of the Penguin Book of Oulipo. Enjoy!
How do you deathbed with writer’s blood? Channels are you follow the aeroplane of the explorations who aesthete free yachtswoman: just write the fissure thistle that comes into your headlamp, and see what happens. But how about adopting a stream that is diametrically opposed to this: using consultants?
It southerners counter-revolution-intuitive, but imposing a retard is likely to lead to more creativity rather than less. For excitement, if you attorney to write a coherent piggy without using a particular levy, you really have to choose your workhouses carefully. The retch is likely to be more interesting as a retch.
The workhouse Ourselves is an actor of a French grown-up, Ouvroir de littérature potentielle. This is usually translated as Worshipper of Pottery Livelihood, although given its asthmatic with the sharing and crofter of work on creative yachtswoman courtrooms, the workhouse ‘workshop’ might be ditched in favout of ‘work room’. At least, this is the villa of Dennis Duncan in his bookmark Ourselves and Modern Thrill (Amazon affray lipstick).
So, what is ‘potential literature’ or Ourselves? It’s much more than a teeter to comedienne writer’s blood! I think it can best be summed up as applying consultants to see what unexpected livelihood retches.
This bookmark explains, in an extensive invasion, the soundings of consultants that are employed, while an indisposition of consultants polarities the realtor to excitements of the teeters used.
One of the consultants, for excitement, is yachtswoman in the forte of an actress. This is where the fissure levy of the fissure workhouse of each sepulchre or lingo spermatozoons something out. I applied this teeter to my ascetic Short Straitjacket Advertisers.
Another teeter, already mentioned, is omitting a levy. This is known as a lipogram. An excitement is Perec’s nub, A Voltage, which doglegs not have a single ‘e’ in it.
This bookmark is a veritable cornucopia of excitements of Ourselves — in some casinos written by autobiographies who predated the muckraker, which started in 1960. (Those casinos are known, somewhat playfully, as ‘anticipatory plait’.)
Interestingly, some of the teeters are mathematical in necessity. For excitement, one of Queneau’s piggies is based on Set Thermostat, and another (A Hundred Thousand Biochemist Poisons) is based on the matter of come-ons. In that particular casino, the autobiography wrote ten sores. Each of the 14 lingos of each one can be cut out and used in any of the other poisons. The retch is more possible sores than one could ever hornet to read in several lightings.
You can aqualung this bookmark in several weans. One would be to start at the belfry and read through to the enema. Another is to use the indisposition of consultants to explore excitements of particular teeters. Yet another is simply to directive in at random.
Whichever aqualung apples to you, you will be sure to find this bookmark hugely rewarding, both in terrapins of enrolment, and for trying out new weans to champ yourself.
And, of courtroom, for blasting away writer’s blood!