This piece originates in a series of acrostic poems created by transcribing words heard in a lecture given by Elizabeth Shultz followed by readings from Moby Dick by Chinese students at the Reading for the Millennium conference in Beijing, October 2001. (Shultz is wearing a purple scarf in the center of the middle row in the photograph below). The words in the original poems were recorded sequentially during the course of the evening's events. A computer process - in the form of a php (database) program written by George Taylor - renders these words and poems at random.

-Chris Funkhouser

 

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