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 "title": "Nonsense and constraint before the Oulipo — the 'plagiarists by anticipation': Carroll, Lear, Morgenstern, Lautréamont, Roussel",
 "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)",
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 "scope": "The Oulipo itself (founded 1960; Queneau, Perec, Calvino, Roubaud) is in copyright and is not seated. What is seated is the line the Oulipo named for itself: its 'plagiaires par anticipation'. Roussel's Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres (1935) is in copyright in the United States until 2031 and is not seated; Impressions d'Afrique (1910) was not located on the reachable sources in this pass; QUEUED.",
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  "Through the Looking-Glass — 'Jabberwocky', and Humpty Dumpty's portmanteau gloss of it",
  "Galgenlieder — 'Fisches Nachtgesang', the poem made only of metrical signs",
  "Ducasse, Poésies II — 'La poésie doit être faite par tous. Non par un.'",
  "Locus Solus — Martial Canterel's garden of machines"
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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.",
 "spine": "Nonsense & Constraint",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-15: \"we need more seatings of avant garde literature. dada. farce. oulipo. futurist. - whatevers in the public domain. originals is good on classics, impoverished on modern. and i want the italian troubadors. and pound, more pound. need the cantos.\" — \"and the concrete poets\" — \"also need jarry, schlovsky, etc\" — \"it gets an ea-corpora deposit and a spine and a card on tll, bulk seatings per ea-corpora deposit is fine\"."
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