The Uncertainty of the Poet

[Katariina Ervasti <cat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone.

I know a funny way of explaining to people what a clone is.
I thought it would be a good idea to share this with you,
because discussion on the list is always so seriouus. ;-)
  
Below is a poem called "The Uncertainty of the Poet"
written by Wendy Cope (who is one of the most popular poets
of Britain).

As you can see, the language of the poem is kind of ---
repetitive. 

The Uncertainty of the Poet

I am a poet.
I am very fond of bananas.
                              
I am bananas.
I am very fond of a poet.

I am a poet of bananas.
I am very fond,

A fond poet of 'I am, I am' -
Very bananas,

Fond of 'Am I bananas,
Am I?' - a very poet.

Bananas of a poet!
Am I fond?  Am I very?

Poet bananas! I am.
I am fond of a 'very'.

I am of very fond bananas
Am I a poet?

Now, connect the words of each line to each other 
along d.1 . Put each words - and each punctuation 
mark - in a cell of its own. The cells including 
the first words of each line are connected to each 
other along d.2 When doing this CLONE every cell
containing a word or a punctuation mark that has appeared
before. ('Uncertainty' is the only word that appears 
only once.)

When you've done this, try changing e.g the 'word' poet
into the word 'engineer'. Suddenly the whole poem is
about an engineer of bananas. :-)))

Have a nice day,
cat

ps. Sorry about the delay of the publication of the
first part of the rewritten user's guide. I've been
really busy with the project we have with the people
of psych. department. Well, now I longer need to
be there 60 % of my work time, so I guess I now
have more time for the user's guide which will
probably be published some day in the near future.

pss. The workshop that was arranged during the weekend
went pretty well. We had 9 rather enthusiastic 
people participating. BUT we also noticed that
the current version of GZZ is pretty complicated
to use.