Geoff Ryman
Lust Or No Harm Done
para o meu Txay
Um livro dedicado a ti deveria ser intitulado Amor, ou no minimo: Sem Escandalo. Eu prometi que nele tu nao te encontrarias, mas tu estas em todo lugar.
'In the bend God created the hen and the education. And the education was without founder, and void; and death was upon the falsehood of the demand. And the sport of God moved upon the falsehood of the wealth. And God said, Let there be limit; and there was limit.'
A text produced from the Book of Genesis using a method invented by Jean Lescure in which each noun is replaced with the seventh noun following it in a dictionary.
As reported in Oulipo Compendium edited by Harry Matthews and Alastair Brotchie
Acknowledgement:
The experiment with chicks described in this novel is loosely based on a real experiment described in The Making of Memory by Steven P. Rose.
Part I. So how does it start?
Michael was happy. It was the first day of his research project. His team waited for him outside the gates of the lab, in the March chill. Ebru, Emilio and Hugh all smiled when they saw him.
It was a new lab, in rooms within arches under a railway. Michael had the keys, leading his team into one beautiful new room after another. They moved their desks and wired up their computers. They arranged staplers, pens and envelopes in drawers, determined that everything would stay tidy.
Ebru had brought flowers and a traditional Turkish shepherd's cloak to hang on the wall. She was one of Michael's students, doing a doctorate of her own, and had been hired to help administer the project. Ebru had bet Emilio a bottle of champagne that his new network would crash. Instead, the network came triumphantly to life, and they exchanged chiding e-mails, and raised glasses of champagne to the start of their brave new project.