Referencing the continuous form paper on which A House of Dust, the first computer-generated poem, was printed, as well as Sergio Leone’s iconic Spaghetti Western, Good, Bad, and Ugly generates a randomized sequence of phrases based on a “grocery list” of my interests. It presents a new interest each time one of the sprocket “holes” is clicked, resulting in thousands of possible permutations.
The first page of Alison Knowles’s A House of Dust.