Friday, October 22, 2010

Michael Palmer - "A Note on Poetics, 1974"

Let us suppose a baseball team with Kurt Schwitters at third,
Louis ("Hit-em-where-they-ain't") Zukofsky at short, Peter
Kropotkin at second, and Anon at first. Art ("Frenchy")
Rimbaud is in left, Willie the Lion Smith in center, and
Gertrude Stein in right. On the mound Werner Heisenberg, whose
notorious indeterminacy pitch has made him the club's un-
challenged "stopper". Alternating behind the plate are John
Cage and Master Canterel, and manager is Ludwig ("the Barber")
Wittgenstein, whose rep around the circuit as a staunch
disciplinarian is largely undeserved.

Then let us suppose that there's no field, no ball, and no
other team. What would would the final score be?

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