Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[pmt6jrp@gps.leeds.ac.uk (J R Partington)]

In article <ant081944345M+4%@gnelson.demon.co.uk> Graham Nelson <graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>Much as "Eliza" was a Rogerian psychotherapist, "Groan" provided
>a sort of artificially intelligent Claude Levi-Strauss, offering
>structuralist analyses of all literary forms.  The classic
>"groan with drwho" option, for instance, used a database of all
>170 Dr Who plots arranged in a Vladimir Propp-like fashion in
>order to explore the Derridean jouissance of a random story in
>Dr Who-space, piecing together fragments such as "but the Master
>escapes in a hovercraft" with an almost... an almost authorial
>bricolage.

Actually, a web version of Groan exists, but the author (not me)
doesn't want the whole world thrashing her computer.  To let Groan
speak for itself:

Recalling Ricoeur, the reader will enthrone the structurally proleptic
interconnectivities of intertextual rarefaction regarding the
pseudo-structuralization of this (!) sparsely transdiciplinary positivity. 

In next week's Dr Who story a dream of Tegan's causes the Doctor to head
for the planet Peladon, where he encounters the hideous form of Count
Grendel, who travelled forward from 1638 by means of a strange potion.
Unfortunately the Castrovalvans are artificially aged and turn into a pile
of dead leaves and so the Doctor destroys the aliens with sulphuric acid. 

Of course in 1946 there was a lunar eclipse which was mind-blowing it
signalled the end of the world as we know it and I got blurred shots using
time-lapse there'll be another one in 2057 which will be visible from
Kerguelen Island of course the Egyptians thought they were caused by a
goblin singing to the moon did you know that Halley conducted human
sacrifices when they came round... 

JRP