NONSENSE-AND-CONSTRAINT
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| MANIFEST.sha256 | sha256 | 2 KB |
| source.json | data (JSON) | 7 KB |
| original/gutenberg-11.txt | text | 170 KB |
| original/gutenberg-12.txt | text | 192 KB |
| original/gutenberg-12005.txt | text | 495 KB |
| original/gutenberg-13.txt | text | 54 KB |
| original/gutenberg-13650.txt | text | 210 KB |
| original/gutenberg-16989.txt | text | 85 KB |
| original/gutenberg-19149.txt | text | 527 KB |
| original/gutenberg-33541.txt | text | 54 KB |
| original/gutenberg-651.txt | text | 108 KB |
| text/carroll-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-1865.txt | text | 148 KB |
| text/carroll-phantasmagoria-1869.txt | text | 86 KB |
| text/carroll-the-hunting-of-the-snark-1876.txt | text | 33 KB |
| text/carroll-through-the-looking-glass-1871.txt | text | 169 KB |
| text/lautreamont-les-chants-de-maldoror-1869.txt | text | 469 KB |
| text/lautreamont-poesies-1870.txt | text | 64 KB |
| text/lear-nonsense-books.txt | text | 184 KB |
| text/morgenstern-galgenlieder.txt | text | 34 KB |
| text/roussel-locus-solus-1914.txt | text | 498 KB |
provenance
edition · Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871); Lewis Carroll, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1869), with A. B. Frost's illustrations (London: Macmillan, 1911); Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (1876); Edward Lear, Nonsense Books, with all the original illustrations (1894): A Book of Nonsense (1846), Nonsense Songs (1871), More Nonsense (1872), Laughable Lyrics (1877); Christian Morgenstern, Galgenlieder nebst dem 'Gingganz' (first 1905; 22nd printing, Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1917, with Karl Walser's cover drawing); Le comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror, chants I–VI (printed 1869, withheld by the publisher; the Gutenberg text is of a later reprint 'revue et corrigée d'après le manuscrit original'); Isidore Ducasse, Poésies I–II (1870); Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus (Paris: Lemerre, 1914)
license · payload: Public domain: Carroll d. 1898, Lear d. 1888, Morgenstern d. 1914, Lautréamont d. 1870, Roussel d. 1933 (PD-EU since 2004; Locus Solus 1914, PD in the United States). Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence. · record: CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only.
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why seated · Constraint as the engine of a text. Roussel built his novels from homophones and Carroll built his poems from rules; both are the precedent for treating a procedure, rather than an intention, as the author of a sentence.