Looking back from twentieth-century text-generating experiments to Llull and the I Ching, it is important to recognize that, as…

“Looking back from twentieth-century text-generating experiments to Llull and the I Ching, it is important to recognize that, as Peterson (1983) reminds us, When computer programmers and a few poets first produced machine poems based on much the same principle as that of Tristan Tzara … they did not see themselves as the odious speculators in Swift’s Academy of Lagado, nor as poets in the Dada tradition. Mostly, they were light-hearted experimenters, trying to discover the word-manipulation possibilities of a new machine. (137)”

–Montfort, Nick.Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. (viacarvalhais)