Anagramatron

Anagramatron is brainchild of Colin Rothfels. It is a bot that repost posts that contain anagrams — words and phrases that are made by rearranging the letters of a given words or phrases in order to produce new text while using all the original letters exactly once. Anagramaton bot looks for anagrams all over the twitter. And when he finds something that can be qualified as an anagram — he reposts it. This makes an assorted accidental collection of curiosities.

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Tjanting_ebooks is a celebration of Ron Silliman’s poem “Tjanting”. Bot’s function is fairly simple — it recontructs the poem line by line in a random order thus making entirely new text comprised of new lines. There are two way of experiencing Tjanting_ebooks. First is to follow it as it goes. Second is to try to scroll it back to where it started in order to read the whole thing from the first tweet to the current. Since there 88k tweets — it is a considerable feat and i guess it is fair to say that it is rather pointless. But while scrolling you can catch glimpses of the random lines falling into your eye. After a while they start to construct a narrative of their own and that is the thing you should definitely try.

Manny Cavalera is the protagonist of video game Grim Fandango. He is literally a skeleton in a suit. While wandering in the game you can participate in slam poetry night that occurs in Blue Casket club. It is fun The whole thing is a cut-up uber-beatnik by the way of DADA. You can make really heartfelt surreal impressionist poem if you try hard enough. The bot collects all the lines you can use in the game and posts them in the random order. Sometimes it gells together in a very coherent beatnik poem (mostly over 3–5 tweets). But usually it is just throwing lines against the wall.

John Ashbery is one of the greatest American poets. He managed to stay in a weird place between more or less regular writing and the thing known as “experimental writing”. That made him a gateway to that dark forest of “err, eh? um…” to the many. What is the better way to celebrate his legacy than to make a bot that will drop some lines made out of his expansive body of work? This bot uses Markov chain calculations to make the lines that will resemble Ashbery’s dense writing style. If know Ashbery good enough you will get the chills of Uncanny Valley once in a while because some lines really sound as if they were written by the man himself.

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