Erasure¶

erasure · procedural · catalogued

A new text made by deleting most of an existing one, the survivors reading as a work in their own right.

Provenance¶

Source: Tom Phillips, A Humument (1970)
Attribution: primary — a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: author-stated — the originator set this rule down

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: no
In other languages: Auslöschung (de), Effacement (fr)

Prompt hint¶

Delete most of the source page and let what remains stand as the poem.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.