Line permutation¶

line_permutation · permutation · catalogued

A poem whose lines may be read in any order, each ordering intended to hold as a finished text.

Provenance¶

Source: Oulipo, Atlas de littérature potentielle (1981)
Attribution: reference — attested in a standard reference rather than traced to an origin
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: codified — formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: yes

Prompt hint¶

Write lines that make sense in any sequence, with no line depending on another.

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.