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From: s6sj7gt@aol.com (S6sj7gt)
Date: 21 Jan 1996 01:37:58 -0500
Subject:alt.Poe.versifications.experimentalize!.AANVVVize!.do!
Newsgroups:alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb


alt.new.poster.greets.waves.hellos!

alt.some.background.relate.describe.tell
alt.Christmas.holidays.came.were.refreshed
alt.aanvvv.newsgroup.discovered.read.enjoyed
alt.related.web-site.found.perused.liked
alt.aanvvv-style.rewritings.saw.read.smiled

(alt.current.favorites.were.became.are
alt.Rudolph's.song.rewritten.rephrased.glowed!
alt.parrot.bit.aanvvv-ized.pythonified.sketched)

alt.different.topic.reset.push.parentheticize
alt.pi.mnemonics.enjoy.appreciate.create
alt.word.lengths.encode.represent.stand-for
alt.successive.digits.number.relate.tell

alt.classic.example.present.show.relate:
alt.elegant.

  "How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after
   the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics"

.see?.get?.understand?

alt.mnemonic.rule.repeat.repeat.repeat:
  alt.word.lengths.encode.represent.stand-for
  alt.successive.digits.number.relate.tell

alt.gory.explanation.is.comes.follows:

alt.first.word.is.is.is
alt.three-letter."How".starts.starts.starts.
alt.first.digit.is.is.is
alt.pi-starting.3.see?.see?.see?

alt.next.word.is.is.is
alt.one-letter."I".follows.follows.follows
alt.next.digit.is.is.is
alt.corresponding."1".observe.note.see

alt.next.word.is.is.is
alt.four-letter."need".follows.follows.follows
alt.this.digit.is.is.is
alt.third-place..2667@4ompuse.watch.look.listen:

alt.initial."3.14".is.is.is
alt.initial.phrase.corresponds.encodes.matches
alt.leading."How I need".see?.get?.understand?
alt.remaining.words.follow.match.denumerate
alt.same.method.continues.repeats.goes-on
alt.mnemonic.explanation.ends.finishes.pops-off-stack

alt.DOUBLE.challenge.evolved.arose.came-to-mind
alt.famous.poem.take.select.find
alt.aanvvv.rewrite.produce.create.craft
alt.additional.constraint.impose.require.attach
alt.pi.mnemonic.be.exist.amaze!

alt.Poe's."Raven".selected.chosen.used
alt.self-imposed.challenge.done.completed.conquered!
alt.bizarre.result.follows.is.displayed

(alt.additional.rules.needed.required.explain
alt.10-letter.word.represents.stands-for.encodes
alt.digit.zero.see?.understand?.get?
alt.(N>10)-letter.word.represents.stands-for.encodes
alt.two.digits.combine.pack.denote
alt.an.example.is.is.is
alt.title-word."versifications".count.observe.notice
alt.14-letter.word.is.is.is
alt.digit-pair."1,4".see?.grasp?.comprehend?
alt.final-but-obvious.rule.is.is.is
alt.initial."alt".ignore.skip.!use.)

alt.final.remark.observe.read.note:
alt.difficult.job.was.is.always-will-be!
alt.minor.flaws.exist.appear.crop-up
alt.humble.writer.sits.pleads.begs
alt.some.forgiveness.grant?.give?.allow?
alt.ofsetting.fact.consider.ponder.notice:
alt.672.pi-decimals.contained.encoded.aanvvvized!

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     alt.Poe.versifications.experimentalize!.AANVVVize!.do!

alt.dreary.night.was.abode.remained
    alt.forgotten.volumes.discarded.put-by.sat
alt.restless.naps.shaken-up.broken-thus.put-out
    alt.annoying."tap-ap".shocked.surprised.heard
    alt.disturbing-my-antedoor.traveler?.said.contradistinguished.queried
alt.incontrovertible.emptiness.was.continued.persisted

alt.icy.tempest.raged.O-remembered!.cried
    alt.internal-to-fireplaces.phantasms.pranced.flew.bedeviled
"alt.lost.soul.comes?.petitions?.is?
    alt.old.sweetheart.returns?.enlivens?.supernaturalizes?
    alt.near-impeccable.Lenore.is-striking?.knocks?.is-entreating?"
alt.alarming.stillness.continued.remained.lurked

alt.my.curtains.fluctuated.did-wave.trembled
    alt.my.being.did-fear.so-capitulated.wavered
alt.comforting.notion.arrived.refreshed.relieved
   "alt.so-unaccommodated.traveler.interferes.entreats.knocks
    alt.hoary.philosophizer.is-visiting.(is-all!).intercedes
alt.simple.matter!".said.uttered.pronounced

alt.unsettled.ego.enlarged.grew.rose
    alt.silent.apparition.perplexed.tried.vexed.
"alt.charitable.madam.inquires?.is?.is?
    alt.new.reinterpretations.be-right?.are-wrong?.misinform?
    alt.mute.apparition.announce!.characterize!.proclaim!"
alt.airy.darkness.intensified.reinterpenetrated.drew-close

alt.surrounded-by-darkness-then.I.questioned-it.queried.petitioned
    alt.a.nightmare.did-encroach.shook-me.intimidated
alt.unnameable.dread.waxed-great.increased.stayed
   "alt.most-pure.Lenore.is-at-threshold?".said.inquired
    alt.enigmatic.quiet.awed.terrified.did-disappoint
"alt.her.presence.a-troubling?".spoken.said

alt.wary.id.faltered.dithered.a-frightened
    alt.continued.rapping.heard.heeded.marked
alt.hasty.deduction."it's-she.taps.hits-window"
   "alt.discomfiting.quandary.will-explore.would-settle.will-decipher"
    alt.my.ear.did-examine.listened.paused
alt.blowing.blizzard.was-a-raging.shook-my-windows.disappointed

alt.determined.I.uncovered.unfastened.unlatched
    alt.indecipherable.raven.landed.came.alighted
alt.black.talons.rested.assembled-on.sat-down
    alt.damned.interloper.saw.eyed.observed
    alt.amused.I.maintained."will-pause"."will-sit"
alt.my.caller.nested.held.remained

alt.my.mystification.was.continued.was
    alt.raven's.expression.bemused.un-chafed.confounded
alt.my.wish.proceeded.particularized.interpolated:
    "alt.surname.tag.declare.do-tell.speak!"
    alt.haunting.visitor.maintained.vacationed.rested
alt.dreary."nevermores".voiced.did-supernaturalize.spoke

alt.vexating.creature.intercommunicated.said.ne'ermor'd
    alt.troubled.I.stood-by.considered.marvelled
alt.so-intriguing.blackbird.looked-on.remained-by.continued-on
    alt.front.door.disquieted.unsettled.a-twisted
    alt.a.raven.sat.looked.said
alt.his.chorus.related.repeated.reuttered

alt.my.raven.reflected.recognized.saw
    alt.lonely."nevermores".reiterated.intensified.did-say
alt.lugubrious.theme.was.discharged.spoke
   "alt.grim.creature.continue-on!.emancipate!.flee!
    alt.dismal.friend.float-on!.dematerialize!.withdraw!"
alt.vain.intercommunion.spoken.expressed.heard

alt.a.sentiment.rose.interpenetrated.promulgated
   "alt.raven's.proprietor.struggled.bled.did-die?
alt.perceptive.raven.watched-it.noticed.empathized?
    alt.sad.fellow.weeps.grieves.wails
    alt.sorrowful.raven.remembers.a-struggles.longs!"
alt.sad."nevermores".continued-on.constitutionalized.pained

alt.cheerlessly-visaged.one.ascended.uncompartmentalized.sat
    alt.an.answer.supplicated.desired.entreated
alt.how.I.speculated.gaped.conjectured
    alt.ungainly.raven.awed.troubled.interfered
    alt.ghastly.bird.laid.looked-on.sat
alt.croaked."nevermore".mystified.stayed-on.puzzled

"alt.kind.inamorata.waned.lapsed.expired!
    alt.yet-heavy.I.continue.languish.mourn
alt.Lenore's.charm.is-missing.is-gone.agonizes
    alt.exceeding.hopelessness.is.remains.perplexes
    alt.oft-yearning.I.remember.cry.supplicate!"
alt.impertinent."nevermore".said.resonated.soliloquized

alt."enigmatic.telepath!.(did-say.voiced.uttered)
   alt.shy.one.attend-me!.heed!.hark!
alt.satisfying.answer.grant.bestow.render
    alt.hop'd-for.liberation.conceive?.create?.experience?
    alt.my.misadventures.terminate?".said.expressed
alt.void.answer.was.persisted.vexed

alt.my.id.rose.mounted.was-angered
    alt.a.challenge.originated.emerged.persevered-on
"alt.a.respite.propagate!.bequeath!.confer!
    alt.continuous.teardrops.wipe!.dry!.receive!
    alt.melancholy.me!.relieve!.relieve!.sympathize!"
alt.bird's.cry.continued-on.overanaesthetized.overanathematized

alt.placid.it.inspected.sat.a-flitted
    alt.devil's.prophet.gazed-on.sat.tortured
alt.much.sorrow.floated.came.remained
    alt.a.question.rose.ensued.emerged
    alt.lovely.Lenore.surprises?.sits?.resurrects?
alt.being-a-cur.it.nevermored.nevermored.nevermored

alt."stark.wretch!".shrieked.remonstrated.shouted
    "alt.indecipherable.raven.go!.begone!.fly!
alt.pesky.wretch.dissociate!.withdraw!.go!
    alt.utterly.nothing.overlook.leave.neglect
    alt.soundly.I.say.tell:.go!"
alt.hateful.raven.nevered.nevered.repeated

alt.immediate.plight.illustrate.explicate.a-specify
    alt.sly.wretch.did-persist.overemotionalizes.agonizes
alt.sitting-by.I.pine.grieve.languish
    alt.imp's.eyes.infiltrate.penetrate.exasperate
    alt.contemptuous.it.sits.depresses.goads
alt.sad.soul.die.dilapidate.redisintegrate

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alt.perhaps-redundant.illustration.present.give.show
alt.pi.mnemonic.see.get.notice:

         3.                 14              15                        9         2
    alt.Poe.versifications.experimentalize!.AANVVVize!.do!

             6         5    3      5         8
    alt.dreary.night.was.abode.remained
                   9            7            9          3   2   3
        alt.forgotten.volumes.discarded.put-by.sat
              8         4       6       2     6         4     3     3
    alt.restless.naps.shaken-up.broken-thus.put-out
    etc....

    (pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433...)

alt.your.comments.solicited.welcomed.appreciated
alt.named."Mike Keith".am.am.am
alt.e-mail.address.show.list.tell
alt.ascii."s6sj7gt@aol.com".is.is.is


                                               Comments

Pi + "The Raven" + AANVVV = ??? 

Constrained writing strikes again. In December 1995, I had already
written Near A Raven , a revised version of Edgar Allen Poe's poem The
Raven that, while attempting to remain as close as possible to the
story, meter, rhyme scheme, and tone of the original, also satisfies
the rather onerous condition that the lengths of the successive words
in the poem are precisely the first 740 decimals of the number pi. 

Then, I discovered the newsgroup alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb
(AANVVV for short). This amazing newsgroup (inspired by the existence
of newsgroup names of the form alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb,
such as alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork and
alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die, to name a few) is devoted entirely to a
peculiar form of constrained writing, in which every "sentence" of
every post to the newsgroup is required to be of the form
alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb (including, for completeness, the
initial "alt" and the dots). One common type of post is to rewrite some
well-known piece of literature (e.g., Hamlet's soliloquy, Lewis Carroll's
Jabberwocky, even the Monty Python dead parrot sketch!) in this
form. 

So, it didn't take long for me to have the following scary thought.
Would it be possible to do everything I had done in Near A Raven (i.e.,
rewrite "The Raven" and make it a pi mnemonic) and also obey the
AANVVV constraint?! 

Well, I've done it, and here is the result. Since it is basically impossible
to worry about meter and rhyme scheme with a constraint so hard,
this meant that two of the constraints in Near A Raven were removed,
so even adding the difficult AANVVV constraint made this task only
modestly harder (as opposed to much harder) than Near A Raven. The
careful reader will notice that in Near A Raven I chose to drop the
fifth line of each six-line stanza (for reasons explained on that page),
whereas in this case I decided to keep it. 

The rules for extracting pi from this poem are the same as in Near A
Raven. A word of N letters represents the digit N if N<9, the digit 0 if
N=10, and two adjacent digits of N>10 (e.g., a 12-letter words
represents the digit '1' followed by '2'). The "alt" in each line is, of
course, ignored. The title is included in the enumeration ("Poe" is the
first 3 in pi, followed by "versifications" = 14, and so on). 

                                       [The mnemonic]

L'Envoi 

A few closing comments. I'm particularly proud of the last line in
stanzas 16 and 17 (the antepenultimate and penultimate stanzas in
the poem). The "nevermored.nevermored.nevermored" in stanza 16 is
dependent on engineering things so that I could use six particular
consecutive digits of pi: digits 601 to 606, which are 101010! Similarly,
stanza 17 ends with a nice variation on "nevermore", based on the
digits 7-7-8. Stanza 17 also has the distinction of being the only one
containing no hyphens (that most useful symbol for helping to satisfy
the AANVVV constraint). 

Despite the extreme difficulty of the task, many of the stanzas
remain quite close to the meaning of the original, sometimes even
using some of the same words. The damn thing even starts off with
"dreary night" instead of "midnight dreary"! 

Unless I change my mind, this will be the hardest
writing-with-constraints task I ever attempt! Still, if you have
constraint ideas, the possibility that I could be tempted remains!... 

Mike Keith 
 
http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikeaan.htm