Rules

from Humankindweed by Fowl

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The Rules of Writing is based on a discarded manifesto of the French, avant garde, writers’ workshop, the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, commonly known as Oulipo. In the 1960’s this loose gathering of writers, mathematicians, professors, engineers and pataphysicians sought to create works using constrained writing techniques to trigger new ideas and inspirations.

A Proclamation was concocted by collaging texts from two sources. The base text is derived from a treatise on chastity taken from The Apocrypha that has been serially translated, using Google Translate, from the original Greek through Uzbek, German, Igbo, Japanese, Gaelic, Filipino and French to English. This text is interwoven with phrases, or adaptations of phrases, from 1960’s pop songs.

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The Rules of Writing

Rule 1. Don’t write about writing
Rule 2. Don’t write about not writing
Rule 3. Write about something
Rule 4. Don’t write about nothing
Rule 5. Write all the time
Rule 6. Write when you are not writing
Rule 7. Write sitting down
Rule 8. Write in silence
Rule 9. Don’t elevate writing above all else
Rule 10. Don’t write according to rules

A Proclamation
The rules of writing the mules of fighting the jewels of lightening the fuels of tightening the grooves of ripening the hooves of icemen the loaves of Titan the roving hymen the groaning of diadems the loaning of whitening the opening titles the closing of prisons the...

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from Humankindweed, released February 26, 2021
Graham Browning - voice, guitar, SA-46 and attic Door
Hugh Nankivell - harpsichord, voice, recorders
Wildebeest - as themselves

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Fowl England, UK

Hugh Nankivell and Graham Browning have worked and played together for over 20 years. They now call themselves Fowl and they spent much of 2020 and lockdown writing songs together and recording them remotely with contributions from a variety of friends. ... more

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