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1 of 26 (a/z)

    frosted fakes-they gggraTe!
  1. a flame: son of spam i aM
  2. 6 foot 2, eyes of mud/moO
  3. vicious factious fictitiOus

2 of 26 (b/z)

    Canon fodder
  1. Serial reader/linear writer
  2. Now what? the party line:
  3. Straight ahead

3 of 26 (c/z)

    tHere's no there there
  1. wOrd is a word is a word--
  2. oR is it?
  3. [Error: invalid file name]

4 of 26 (d/z)

    a Spike lee joint
  1. meTatext: how great thou
  2. arT
  3. Mo better Pomo(dernism)

5 of 26 (e/z)

    a don king Presentation
  1. reader versUs writer
  2. 12-chapter Bout
  3. -gonna reinScribe your face

6 of 26 (f/z)

    sandy: "arf-Arf!"
  1. [abort retry fail?] a
  2. [abort retry fail?] r
  3. [abort retry fail?] f

7 of 26 (g/z)

    brickbat
  1. the mouse thaT roared
  2. click-and-draG racer
  3. cut and paste, O bricoleur

8 of 26 (h/z)

    virtuous realiTy
  1. cult of s(t)imUlation
  2. virtual virginS sacrificed
  3. [you must be eIghteen]

9 of 26 (i/z)

    zed, said fred
  1. cypherspace: zer0s and 0nes
  2. (mostly zer0s) oUght-naught
  3. [error: disk fulL]

10 of 26 (j/z)

    I. [read/write eRror]
  1. read=to skim, skIp, browse
  2. read=to process, to consume
  3. read=to produce, to write

11 of 26 (k/z)

    II. [read/wrong eRror]
  1. read=appropriate, poach...
  2. ...steal
  3. revise, rewrite, Reinscribe

12 of 26 (l/z)

    III. [wread/rite error]
  1. i read, therefore i am...
  2. ...a writer
  3. [error: access denied]

13 of 26 (m/z)

    stupid is as stupid as dos
  1. artificial intelligence
  2. natural-born stupidity
  3. [error: not enough memory]

14 of 26 (n/z)

    daed si luap
  1. cuckoo haiku:
  2. i am the eggmAn (poached)
  3. paper-backed Writer

15 of 26 (o/z)

    united centEr
  1. the center Cannot hold
  2. text is decEntered
  3. you are herE

16 of 26 (p/z)

    apParently transparent
  1. 7-Layers-of-deferral cake
  2. syStem requirements=pentium
  3. foRk, capacity for opacity

17 of 26 (q/z)

    all lost in the Supermarket
  1. personality: renT to own,
  2. no money down. NO likee?
  3. morph it, put it to sleep

18 of 26 (r/z)

    (f)layers of defuR-all
  1. abstracted/distraCted
  2. deferred/referred to the
  3. son of a son of a footnote

19 of 26 (s/z)

    francophilosophistry
  1. bricolage/decoupage
  2. "j'aime Jerry"[nutty frogs]
  3. i'm going to s/z-land!

20 of 26 (t/z)

    untitled
  1. word imprinted--
  2. Word Imperfect
  3. [intentionally left blank]
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21 of 26 (u/z)

    global search-anD-replace-
  1. -village: find "Individual"
  2. replace with "coMmunity"
  3. [error: not founD]

22 of 26 (v/z)

    I. prix fixe: man vs man
  1. heterogeneitY/displacement
  2. fragmentatioN/multiplicity
  3. [incompatiblE file format]

23 of 26 (w/z)

    II. dim sum: man vs himself
  1. Place: ity[bity] ipli-city
  2. Men: "hetero!" "frag!"
  3. Gene? dismultation.

24 of 26 (x/z)

    wYsiwyg
  1. wHat you're seeing is wrong
  2. (You guess?). when you're
  3. sAd, invoke web--your god

25 of 26 (y/z)

    deep blue or widely re(a)d?
  1. sink or skim? read deep
  2. (ragged claws scuttling) oR
  3. wide (flat rock skipping)?

26 of 26 (z/z)

    http://www.revOlution.com
  1. after the revoLution, every
  2. 1 will write, No
  3. 1 will read
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