"I love Dreamsongs"

2022-05-12 17:53:34

For years I’ve tried to blend art and science in my work. Even with limited talent and limited success, over many years I’ve amassed a body of work some find interesting, and over time, as the master recommends, I will endeavor to put it all here for you to have. Here’s how Henry put it:Let us suppose, valleys & such ago,one pal unwinding from his labours inone bar of Chicago,and this did happen. This was so.And many graces are slipped, & many a sineven that laid man lowRichard P. GabrielRevised: April 8, 2022 Comments? Mail to HeyDonations Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on this site (including text, photographs, and any other original works) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.Site MapSite History Featured Pages Daily Poems (2021): (Many, Strong, Narrow, Shallow, Red [pdf]) 100 Poems Imitating 100 Translations [pdf], a collection of poems Notes on �A Result in Visual Aesthetics� [pdf] A Search for Beauty / A Struggle with Complexity: Christopher Alexander [pdf] History of Programming Languages IV [HOPL] Tuned Adrenaline: A Beat-Boogied Headful [pdf], a chapbook in memory of Ron Goldman "in the control room of the banquet" [pdf] InkWell: A Creative Writer's Creative Assistant [pdf] I Throw Itching Powder at Tulips [pdf] The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution [pdf]Waltz in Illinois [pdf]Publication Culture in Computer Science and Software Engineering [pdf] Defamiliarization: Flarf, Conceptual Writing, and Using Flawed Software Tools as Creative Partners [workshop version: 1 mb pdf] [journal version: pdf]Better Science Through Art (2.1 mb pdf)Worse is Better, full paper, history, and responsesThe Rise of Worse is Better, the part everyone talks aboutScience is Not Enough: On the Creation of Software [script (pdf)][slides (6.8mb pdf)]Designed as Designer, an essay on design and creativityA Pattern of Language EvolutionThe Poetry of ProgrammingThe Art of Lisp & WritingBooks I've written [New: Drive On (poetry); Innovation Happens Elsewhere (open source)–Jolt Productivity Award Winner; pdf of final typeset version of Writers' Workshop now available] Kholstomer: The History of a Horse by Leo Tolstoy