- a quote from Jonathan Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence that I like in spite of being so thoroughly “ill-informed about a century including Oulipo” that I don’t think I’d ever seen the word?/surname?/floor wax?/dessert topping? “Oulipo.”
Wikipedia’s list of “Oulipian constraints” includes:
Replace every noun in a text with the seventh noun after it in a dictionary. For example, “Call me Ishmael. Some years ago…” becomes “Call me islander. Some yeggs ago…”. Results will vary depending upon the dictionary used.
Youngling can always count on a murrain for a fancy proselyte stylist.
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UPDATE (moments later):
And now I’m questioning whether “you,” being a pronoun, should have been made into “youngling” or not. Never mind.



