Respones to readings

Harry Mathews
The first piece was informative but that was about it. To me it was like reading a history book in which the writer was trying to inform you of something while using a story from the past. Though his message on translation was extremely informative. I found his paraphrase & perverbs piece to be much more interesting. Each topic spoke on a different subject but yet they were all closely related. One section spoke on poodles and another on hounds. Then other sections brought food into play such as bread, eggs, and soup with people doing things such as stealing, eating, and sharing theses items.

Jackson MacLow
I found his method for which he created his writings to be extremely complicated yet very interesting, although I found no understanding or interest in the end result.

Ronald Johnson
I really liked this way of creating text. If you read it as thought it is all one flowing piece to the point where you're making yourself think that it makes sense you can actually get a poetic feeling as well as a defined message from the writings.

Tom Phillips
The way of forming the text was extremely similar to Ronald Johnson but adding the images to the text added more of a meaning to the writings and made the piece more interesting. If you see the word girl and a picture of a girl is with it you can get past the words and start to bring in emotions to relate to the writings.

Austin Kleon
Of all the readings to me this made more sense then others. It was as if he knew exactly what it is that he wanted to say and he found those words in the text and blacked out everything else to form one single thought from a page full of words. One of my favorites.