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Old 12-02-2002, 10:42 AM
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Artist Hopes Dairy Herd Makes Poetry


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Banks, a 22-year-old student at Purchase College, painted single words (from "a" to "existential") on the flanks of about 60 cows near his upstate New York home, then let them wander around to see if they could compose poetry.
 
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Old 12-02-2002, 10:46 AM
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One animal seemed especially inspired - with "away" written on her side, she broke loose from the herd for a while.

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actually, I think it's a pretty cool idea. Kinda like the refrigerator magnet poetry, but much more random.

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actually, I think it's a pretty cool idea. Kinda like the refrigerator magnet poetry, but much more random.

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I'm thinking in terms of the whole monkeys-at-typewriters scenario - if you put enough monkeys at enough typewriters, and let them go at it long enough, they will produce enough randomly-generated letters to where you can get some Shakespeare work or other out of it.

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