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urn:uuid:b55c95a7-ce6e-4cfb-8945-cab4e04001e5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:b55c95a7-ce6e-4cfb-8945-cab4e04001e5 15 9789491914089 06 10.21983/P3.0227.1.00 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 01 01 To Be, or Not to Be Paraphrased 1 A01 Bardsley Rosenbridge 01 eng 00 150 03 12 DCF 93 DCF 10 FIC064000 20 poetry 93 6NP 20 William Shakespeare 20 experimental writing 01 06 03 00 <p><italic>To Be, or Not to Be: Paraphrased</italic> is an expanding deconstruction of Hamlet’s famous existential question, achieved by putting the line through paraphrasing software 50 times. With each permutation, the quotation grows longer and its meaning is distorted, causing the question to question its own existence by acting as a faulty self-replicator, a nonsensical self-affirmation that destroys itself in the process of becoming. This controlled explosion of a sentence was performed by Bardsley Rosenbridge as part of his work with the <ext-link xlink:href="http://www.darkmeaningresearchinstitute.org">Dark Meaning Research Institute</ext-link>, a group of parasemantic experimenters developing innovative ways to extract hidden meaning from the world around us.</p> 01 00 03 02 https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/p3.0227.1.00_frontcover.jpg Uitgeverij 01 punctum books The Hague/Tirana 04 19 2016 06 15 9789491914089 09 punctum books 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/p3.0227.1.00.pdf 99 04 09 punctum books 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://punctumbooks.com/titles/to-be-or-not-to-be-paraphrased/ 99 04