Perverb

perverb · word · catalogued

A proverb formed by grafting the first half of one saying onto the second half of another, and the writing that follows from it.

Provenance

• Source: Harry Mathews, in Oulipo, Atlas de littérature potentielle (1981)
• Attribution: primary — a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind
• Checkability: source — decidable against the source text it was made from
• Attested: author-stated — the originator set this rule down

Details

• Kind: both
• Languages: en
• Requires: tokens, corpus.proverbs
• Deterministic: no

Notes

Blocked: forming a perverb needs a corpus.proverbs capability no pack provides.

Prompt hint

Cross two proverbs at the midpoint and write the passage the hybrid implies.