{"id":76268,"date":"2014-09-03T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=76268"},"modified":"2014-09-03T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T22:03:33","slug":"postcards-from-another-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/postcards-from-another-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from Another Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The art of spam<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Stamps_of_Germany_(DDR)_1987,_MiNr_3132\"<\/a>

Detail from a 1987 German postage stamp<\/p><\/div>\n

The Daily<\/em> gets thousands of comments a day. Nearly all of them are spam. This should be annoying, and I suppose it can be. Problem is, I find myself captivated by our spam, so much so that I keep a running list of my favorite comments. As far as I know, they\u2019re entirely computer generated: an algorithm hurls together bits of text from around the Internet, hoping to rustle up enough verisimilitude to trick our spam filter. The results are unduly captivating\u2014they\u2019re by turns ludic, cryptic, disquieting, emotional, and inadvertently profound. On many days they\u2019re more interesting than the comments we receive from real people.<\/p>\n

Here, for instance, is an automated comment from \u201cgeniadove\u201d:<\/p>\n

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If you give it your name it will call you by it when you start up the GPS. These incidences come about quite normally, showing that Peter dislikes his daughter. A huge clue that your ex boyfriend still has feelings for you. \u2014geniadove<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That swerve at \u201cPeter dislikes his daughter\u201d\u2014whoa! Dissertations have been written about less. And to see a clinical phrase like \u201cThese incidences come about quite normally\u201d next to a casual one like \u201cA huge clue\u201d: What does it all mean? The mind searches restlessly, somewhat desperately, for connective tissue, some semblance of conventional narrative. Like autostereograms<\/a>, these comments always verge on resolving into a discernible whole; unlike autostereograms, they never do. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another, from \u201cgetfave.com,\u201d with the original spelling and punctuation preserved:<\/p>\n

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The Helmet Communicator is currently available in three different configurations – the HBC 100 Moto, the HBC 120 Snow, and the HBC 130 Bike. Nellie enjoyed playing bingo, going to the Caymans dead or alive. Cheap Sympathy Flowers can be ordered online, or by telephone, you must be a registereed menber and loggedd in. Mr Nicelli responded hat Mr. These memorial timber are planted by the name of the particular items and services you offer and where they can get tooo vague. Frankly, if they are willing to do violate the family\u2019s privacy that way?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The best spam coalesces\u2014with its typos, its competing voices, and its gloriously infelicitous phrasings\u2014into a sort of nauseous goulash. Reading it is roughly akin to parsing the overlapping fragments of dialogue in a Robert Altman movie or sorting through the polyphony in certain works of high modernism: Gaddis\u2019s J. R.<\/em>, maybe, or William Carlos Williams\u2019s Paterson<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But there are a number of literary antecedents here: found poetry, Dadaist ready-mades, collage and bricolage, cutups, aleatoric poems, various Oulipo shenanigans. Most especially, there\u2019s spoetry<\/a>, spam lit<\/a>, and flarf<\/a>, similar movements from the past two decades that have made poetic hay from the Internet\u2019s endless detritus. Flarf descends from Gary Sullivan<\/a>, who collaborated with other poets online, constructing abhorrently bland poems from the results of random Google searches, workplace memos, Associated Press stories, and the like. (\u201cawe yea You see, somebody\u2019s done messed up \/ my latvian women\u2019s soccer team fantasy REAL bad, \/ oh pagers make of cheese,\u201d goes a representative sample.) As the flarfist Sharon Mesmer told Poets & Writers<\/em> in 2009,<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s this idea that juxtaposition creates a little pop in your mind to take you out of your immediate, mundane reality. When we do these crazy things with Google, a lot of times we\u2019re putting something beautiful together with something ugly, and it makes this third thing that is completely delightful and unexpected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And in 2008, the Guardian<\/em> ran a piece on spam lit and its practitioners<\/a>, especially Ben Myers and Lee Ranaldo, both of whom have published volumes of work derived from spam:<\/p>\n

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These instances of found poetry\u2014often containing nuggets of unwitting but unalloyed beauty\u2014seemed, in Myers\u2019s words, like \u201cscriptures from the future\u201d or \u201cpostcards from another planet.\u201d Discovering them in your inbox made you feel like Cocteau\u2019s Orpheus picking up cryptic poetic messages from the underworld on his car radio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That sense of private discovery, of trespassing, is key to the somewhat vertiginous feeling you get from reading a quality piece of spam: you\u2019ve gone past the edge of something, and you\u2019re not supposed to be there, but there you are, enjoying the vista.<\/p>\n

I admire the impulse behind spam lit, and I\u2019ve read some of it with great interest, but I\u2019d argue that any sort of human interference, even if only to \u201ccurate\u201d the spam, dilutes its strength a bit\u2014it\u2019s best encountered in its natural environment, which is to say your inbox, where it can baffle, perturb, interrupt, and otherwise fuck with you. Even so: here, for your edification, amusement, or abrupt dismissal, are a few of my favorite recent spam comments.<\/p>\n

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Many of us have been in love only to have it taken away. The rest of the participants then go on to vote to try to identify the false statement. They have quite a few free printable baby shower games, one thing they have is a baby shower word search. \u2014megapolis hack<\/p>\n

I began an AfricAmerican yellow pages to simply help minority-owned enterprise in nearby areas. Now add flour and milk and mix till a mixture gets shaped. \u2014yellowpages.aol.com<\/p>\n

towards the bottom is a not damp riverbed. \u2014New Arrival Louboutin Gold Isolde 160mm For Sale<\/p>\n

Rooney was a peripheral figure, pushed to the margins of the game on the left flank. Because epi inositol could conceivably be converted to myo inositol and may contain up to 10% of the active isomer (WR Sherman, personal communication), it was hypothesized that a low dose of myo inositol, coadministered with a biologically inactive isomer, may be equally effective in reducing the effects of lithium. \u2014uggs boots stardoll<\/p>\n

To qualify for this job, you need to be licensed as a dental hygienists in a State or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia. \u2014Soon<\/p>\n

gammons \u00a0ganache \u00a0ganders \u00a0gangers \u00a0ganging \u00a0ganglia \u00a0gangrel \u00a0gangsta.
heists \u00a0 hejira \u00a0 heliac \u00a0 helios \u00a0 helium \u00a0 helled \u00a0 heller
\u00a0 hellos. lintiest lintless linurons lionfish lionised lioniser lionises lionized. \u2014modular kitchen dealer<\/p>\n

The company started in 1999 and has built the best reputation, when it comes to car body repairs in Leeds. \u2014car body repairs in leeds<\/p>\n

Breakfast seems like a huge challenge, since it is so common in our society to eat toast and cereals, however there are some tasty options that are child-friendly. When we try to muscle through with just conviction as our army we\u2019re doing it the hard way. Hair color refers to the coloring of all the hair while highlighting refers to coloring only some strands of hair in a lighter color than the rest of the hair. \u2014Gluten Free Society<\/p>\n

\u201cI see these changes as changes that are happening outside of me, \u201cThe download thing is probably the wave of the future. Rosmene feels the choice she\u2019s facing is unfair,\u201d Imeneo and Tirinto both claim they will die if they cannot have her. you\u2019ve got plenty of responsibility. It was an early rock \u2018n\u2019 roll record.For a few minutes the other night the old divide between \u201creal\u201d and \u201cfake\u201d (\u201crock\u201d and \u201cdisco, a lithe and gripping account of one of the essential workouts for any orchestra, The career of the young British conductor. \u2014Air jordan 17<\/p>\n

french fries prompted him of make one particular single their self. \u2014Ugg Stoneman Sheepskin Boot Mens<\/p>\n

While driving, l remembered Lynn\u2019s terrible story of her mother\u2019s death when Lynn was ten years old. Bill and Jackie Romaniecki, along with Susan and my mother, were aware that Lynn Crocker knew what happened to her former husband\u2019s Office \u2013 Land franchise and that it was, as they all were, sold to Staples. Or, you started shopping and kept getting more credit cards and now you\u2019re afraid you need to file bankruptcy. \u2014car sales jobs in south florida<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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