9/28 Response

Although Raymound Roussel's method creates unique sentences by using various meanings, I'm not so sure that the tedious nature of the process is worth the return. It is plausible to find meaning in a newly created line through this method, but even so, I really don't see the point. This process is no better than throwing a bunch of words that you read, hear, or just pop into your head. Rather, although it is mildly interesting by creating the word association, it is just more time consuming and tedious than is necessary; there are a lot more effective ways to create "uncreative" writing. Similarly, Hazel Smith's writing experiment notes some methods that are also less effective than ones we have used in class before. We have seen dissociation countless times through virtually all of the work we have done thus far; random phrases or sets of words that have little to do with one another (and sometimes can even contradict one another), are seen throughout. I find it intriguing that people have created these backwards methods and processes that we can accidentally get all of these methods just through our transcryption or encryption assignments.