Quiz: Mystery scores

[greg]

I thought Karl was the greatest Jewish composer of all time?
Why every1 be confusin' me, yo? 

[karlhenning]

Use of microvowels isn't quite the same as diacritics, Greg

[Guido]

Mystified as to why M didn't mention Mahler, though. Or Wagner, the greatest Jewish composer of them all 

I mentioned Mahler, but M said that he didn't count because he converted...

[lukeottevanger]

Are those quartervowels or sixthvowels, Karl? It's hard to tell. And have you tried

m
   u
      l
        t
   i
          v
   o
             w
   e
                l
   i
                  n
                    g
 
yet?

[lukeottevanger]

I mentioned Mahler, but M said that he didn't count because he converted...

So did Schoenberg....and back again.

[karlhenning]

Are those quartervowels or sixthvowels, Karl? It's hard to tell. And have you tried

m
   u
      l
        t
   i
          v
   o
             w
   e
                l
   i
                  n
                    g
 
yet?

Very nice!

That's what M said, Guido, but I don't know if that's binding 

[greg]

Use of microvowels isn't quite the same as diacritics, Greg

Wh ,  'm lrnng lts f stff tody.
S fr m ,  fnd t ntrstng t wrt wtht vwls.
Bt t's hrd t rd. 

[lukeottevanger]

No it's not

[lukeottevanger]

Speaking of which, who else has read this:




The translations are by definition even more incredible.

And then there's the complementary follow-up, Les revenentes. Unbelievable.

[greg]

No it's not

Nt n prgrph. Bt f th whl frm strtd t wrt lk ths, t mght trn t t b  lttl bt strssfl.

[Guido]

Wh ,  'm lrnng lts f stff tody.
S fr m ,  fnd t ntrstng o wrt wtht vwls.
Bt t's hrd o rd. 

Weirdly both times you wrote the word to you deleted the t rather than the o...

[lukeottevanger]

The wiki page for A Void (La disparition) links here and here, the first being one of the most lovingly-done wiki pages I've seen, as it appears to follow the same self-imposed constraint as the novel it describes.

[greg]

Speaking of which, who else has read this:




The translations are by definition even more incredible.

And then there's the complementary follow-up, Les revenentes. Unbelievable.

We had a project once like that in class- write an essay without the letter e. It wasn't very fun.

[greg]

Weirdly both times you wrote the word to you deleted the t rather than the o...

editing now......

[Guido]

An astonishing book I know Luke. It's difficult to know whether the translations are more impressive - in French e appears in even more words than it does in English.

I am just starting Life a user's manual which is truly fascinating.

[lukeottevanger]

We had a project once like that in class- write an essay without the letter e. It wasn't very fun.

That's because you're not Perec. A weird genius, he was! Just found this of his, too - rather appropriate for this forum!

[lukeottevanger]

I am just starting Life a user's manual which is truly fascinating.

Yes, another great one. And his unfinished novel, 53 Days, is mind-blowing in a Pale Fire kind of way.

[Guido]

The wiki page for A Void (La disparition) links here and here, the first being one of the most lovingly-done wiki pages I've seen, as it appears to follow the same self-imposed constraint as the novel it describes.

That's fantastic! Cheers for this.

[Guido]

Yes, another great one. And his unfinished novel, 53 Days, is mind-blowing in a Pale Fire kind of way.

Haven't read eitherof those, so don't know what mind-blowing in a Pale Fire kind of way means. Sorry!

[lukeottevanger]

Nabokov's Pale Fire. Or here