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You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed

Or you are the only animal

Who can think, who can reason, who can read

Hello and welcome to Bookworm

Today I'm particularly excited

Because in the studio with me is Harry Matthews, who is the American member of the Ulipo.

Now, those of you who have listened to the show have heard this mysterious word periodically,

usually to animate anything I truly love.

Now, the Uipo stands for...

...ofoer of literature potential literature.

And it is...

It was formed as a group, although not as a movement,

of people who were interested in studying the results

of generative forms on literature. The old argument when people were explaining Ulippo was to say

a sonnet is the result of arbitrary constraints. What would happen if we used

other arbitrary constraints? Could great works, potentially many great works of literature,

follow from those constraints? And many great works of literature, to to my mind have in fact followed.

Now, in the laboratory, the ouvrage, the Uli Poe make experiments, but there are eventually

works among them I would like to cite Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Life, a user's manual by Georges Perret,

many books by the deeply admired Raymond Kenneau, and works inspired by Ulipo procedures

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