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Here's another June 12, 2007
manifestation of my
perhaps ill-advised
fascination with
randomness...
RANDOM_CONNECTIONS
I take a copy of
Paul Goodman's
"Five Years" and GOODMAN
use it as something
like the I Ching:
I randomly select three
entries from it, and
try to find parallels
between them; I study As usual, I have
the set as a tryptych (Though rarely do multiple different
on it's own... I treat it as an ways of making the
"Oracle", I don't random selection.
use it to make
decisions, answer The book has 257 pages,
personal questions, which means that
and so on.) generating a binary
number with 8 coins
is a cery close fit
for the range.
The pages contain
Finding parallels varying numbers of
isn't a surprise: entries, and
these writings are traditionally I
all the work of select between them
one intellect, by counting down
however wide-ranging. from the top
either one, two
or three for each
On occasion I think of the three
I can spot parallels random selections.
that Goodman might
not have been aware That's reasonably
of... elegant, and leaves
few blank spots
NOW_AND_LATER in coverage...
(I can do better
with software,
but that's too
dull to get into.)
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