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Project Gutenberg has around 45,000 books and other documents. I am using the title of each and every one to create an epic found poem. If you would like to keep track, follow my blog 'Finding Gutenberg', on which I am posting this poem stanza-by-stanza as it is created. Finding Gutenberg Xxx

I'll be honest: I've fallen out of love with this place, and the Internet generally. The Web is a grand postmodern wasteland of human thought, punctuated by only a few gleaming gems. You people have been my jewels, and I thank you, but I cannot stand this any more. I cannot stand art any more. Either I am not a true artist, or I am truer; that is to say, either I am sick of it because I cannot effectively take part in it, or I am sick of it because I despise the constant labelling of 'art' upon what should be the free expression of simply being. I do not write very much any more, and perhaps this is well. When I do jot down the occasional sn

When I was a snotty five-year-old, I wanted to operate cameras. As soon as I could watch television, I began trying to unpick the methods beneath the veneer. I figured out that there must be people behind the cameras, and that they had lives. At my Grandmother's old house – a portable bungalow on the top of Box Hill – I remember finding what I thought was a good play-substitute for a real camera: a wide, flat, sky-blue balloon pump, which I thought looked sufficiently camera-like owing purely to its black nozzle which looked something like a lens. I thought that was good enough. So I walked around with this thing with that noble confidence wh