LITTLE BEGINNING

(STEIN 1)


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Derived from a page (and preceding line) of Gertrude Stein's "A Long Gay Book" (A Stein Reader, edited by Ulla E. Dydo, last line of 240 thru 241--determined by a logarithm table) via Charles O. Hartman's program DIASTEX5, his latest automation of one of my diastic procedures developed in 1963, using the 1st paragraph of the source as seed, and subsequent editing: some exisions of words and changes of word order within lines; changes and additions of capitals, periods, and spaces.

Jackson Mac Low
New York: 27-28 April 1998


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