On a run through Rock Creek park this morning, I thought that these would be good epigraphs for the book I’m working towards (title unknown, contents indeterminate) that utilizes the Database of Descriptions. I’m thinking of it as a kind of “mash-up novel,” but with an online interactive component. More on that later.
So, the epigraphs:
- I see [systems of] words ~ Hannah Weiner
- People of the future: while you are reading these poems, remember, you didn’t write them. I did. ~ Ted Berrigan
- Developmental and evolutionary innovation arises from the gathering of incremental predispositions that can be shuffled into advantageous configurations. ~ (Source Unknown (for now))
In the print version, there would probably be “epigraph” pages scattered periodically throughout the text.
In the online interactive version, users would be able to select any phrase and add it to a master epigraph list, thereby generating a kind of crowdsourced framing/introduction of the text. (That’s where the “infinity” of the title comes in. Get it?)
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Epigraphs are an underappreciated literary form. We need more.