These matrices were added, multiplied and subracted according to the rules of matrix arithmatic. However, the process applied to sentences involved a few decisions remniscent of authorship:

Multiplying matrices is a complicated operation that involves juggling four different old terms per new, multiplied matrix slot. To simplify the process with such clause-ridden sentences, I chose to combine them by juxtaposing the terms whole.

For addition, a more straightforward operation in matrix arithmatic, I spliced the terms together, alternating roughly according to natural comma and period divisions.

The subtraction operations, W - C and C - W, were possibly the most interesting aspect of this project. W - C is mathematically identitcal to W + (-C), and creating the negations of these texts involved both chutzpah and a quality thesaurus. Rather than simply adding "nots" and "uns" willy-nilly, I chose to take the antonyms of the main predicates of each clause. This involved a closer reading of Wordsworth than ever was required of me in my decades of education. As for the pedagogical benefits of a close reading of Juliet Carter's description of the Ceremony of Original Innocence, I make an authorial choice not to say.

 

 

 

 

constrained authorings
, copyleft 2000
elizabeth freudenthal and jeremy douglass
ucsb hyperfictions seminar in english
professor alan liu
all writes re-served