In defense of Christian Bok, I liked parts of his book Enuoia, which took considerable effort to write, I think. And, very much against what Goldsmith says in his manifesto, Bok's lipograms are crafted with readability in mind. He strikes me as more interesting. I have a harder time defending Goldsmith, partly because some of the generating mechanisms he uses are extremely generic and uninteresting, because it would not take an educated person any time to come up with dozens of ideas at least equally as "uncreative" and because I strongly suspect that they wouldn't get published whereas his--because of notoriety alone--will. The sociology of this sort of phenomenon is interesting but discomforting.
Pedro.
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