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This machine, built by Jean-Michel Bragard and Robert Kayser in 1994, creates new poems by rotating cylinders with lines from Raymond Queneau’s "Cent mille milliards de poèmes". It makes the book easier to interact with while keeping the original text. Under Virtue Ethics, the machine reflects creativity and craftsmanship by preserving Queneau’s work in a practical and engaging form. It shows how design can improve access to literature without changing its meaning.
Images used with permission from the Lilly Library.
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- Title: La Première Machine à Lire les Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes: un véritable jackpot littéraire!
- Authors: Jean-Michel Bragard, Robert Kayser
- Year: 1994
- Publication Place / Publisher: Éditions temps mêlès, 1994.
- Lilly Library Call Number: Q325 .B73 1994
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Rolando Jorge
Rolando Jorge is an Informatics major at Indiana University with a cognate in Business and a minor in Web Design and Development. He serves as a student assistant at the OEM as part of the Cox Scholarship. This fall, he will begin a Master of Science in Information Systems.
