MODAL .TXTUALITIES
NICHOLAS KATSAFANAS
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Modal .TXTualities is leveraging literary analysis of Big Pun's rhyme schemes and the operas of Robert Ashley to construct fractal novels. "Self Similarity in the Extended Line" expands on the idea of modal meters.
FRACTAL NOVELS
(Quadratic Modal Meter (>.75))

PATRIOTISM RUNS COUNTER TO ORDINARY HUMAN MORALITY
Abstract: Popular livestreamer and entirely fictional character Nikolaos Enrique Iglesias engages in a series of episodic "streams" that accurately act as his autobiography. He's now strongly considering transcribing his episodic "streams" into texts for an increasingly literate American public.
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Concepts: Diagrammatic Subjectivity; Geometric Expressionism; Sal Paradise
Abstract: Reimi and Buddy share what can only be deemed God-given honest opinions that they have every right to express on their trip to East Asia. Then Reimi and her sister Nikke take in an anonymous French Mannerist's painting. Finally, Reimi shares with Buddy a particularly noteworthy month-long dip into insanity her sister Nikke recently endured.
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Concepts: Trauma & Memory; Thomas Paine; Travel Memoirs
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Abstract: Jo Yu-Ri hires this well-endowed Greek demigod named Priapus to help cultivate her bok choy in Midtown Manhattan, but he's kind of promiscuous? Is that an issue? Or do her and her friend Araqi fundamentally misunderstand the nature of numbers?
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Concepts: Form-Numbers; Greco-Druzian Metaphysics; Aesthetic Beauty
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