Tasks / Forced-éjà Vu
Make a pedestrian or prosaic gesture which produces a physical artifact. Spill some milk. Crumple a newspaper. Open a book to a random page.
Produce an artifact identical to the first one, but deliberately. Pour (or eyedropper) milk to get a puddle of the exact shape and size as the first one. Crease a second newspaper with the exact creases of the first. Close the book and keep opening it and closing it until you find that same page.
Document, please!
1 to 100 players
15 points
Level 1
In the zone of: Chrononautic Exxon
Created by Dr. Subtle
6 completed :: 14 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
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Heh. This is nice. I'd like to see the interpretations of this task.
Or rather, Borges' description of an attempt at this in literature.
"My obliging predecessor did not refuse the collaboration of chance: he composed his immortal work somewhat a la diable , carried along by the inertias of language and invention. I have taken on the mysterious duty of reconstructing literally his spontaneous work."
www.vahidnab.com/menard.pdf
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This is pretty awesome.