@YouNeverDidThe

May 21, 2016 9:35 AM

Internet artist Darius Kazemi has created a Twitter feed that tweets out sentences from an episode of Thomas Pynchon’s acclaimed novel Gravity’s Rainbow.
posted by chavenet (10 comments total)

Jesus fuck. Now I have something I hate more than Gravity's Rainbow.
posted by BlahLaLa at 10:07 AM on May 21, 2016 [8 favorites]

itertools.permutations!
posted by JauntyFedora at 10:23 AM on May 21, 2016

for reals.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 10:24 AM on May 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

Where's the Kenosha Kid? ...and should have rtfa.
posted by skyscraper at 10:46 AM on May 21, 2016

But the syntax is the easy part: now some human has to write the scene that establishes each variation's semantics in a meaningful novelistic context. (Also these aren't sentences from Gravity's Rainbow, that's the entire point, jeez)
posted by RogerB at 10:47 AM on May 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

I know that's impossible without even following the link. There are no sentences in Gravity's Rainbow which are short enough to tweet.
posted by surlyben at 11:14 AM on May 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

shit there goes my password
posted by Annika Cicada at 11:48 AM on May 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

This is one of Darius's earliest bots. Here is a full list of all of Darius's 51 Twitter bots, which range from gif creators to joke makers.
posted by honest knave at 12:03 PM on May 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

I did the Kenosha Kid. I am not proud of it. But there it is.
posted by Splunge at 12:11 PM on May 21, 2016

I first met Darius when he was "that guy in the orange shirt at the Game Developer's Conference." It's been interesting to watch his growth, particularly his changing feelings about videogames.
posted by gusandrews at 6:43 PM on May 21, 2016