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That's the subject line of a spam email I received; at least now I know what to name my first-born. The odd thing is that there have been other spam with a sort of found dadaist poetry feel to it (example below). I haven't read anything about this but would guess that it's an attempt to trick spam filtering software or at least make the recipient curious enough to open the email. The words appear to be drawn from a small standard dictionary (because there are very few archaic or obscure words) and from a medical dictionary. Or maybe it's just the spellchecker from a hospital computer.



And you can start the criticism: Note the consonance of "abort pit sit." Is "madeleine" a Proust mention? Is "seraglio tahiti" a disapproving Gaugin reference? And why "bartok"? There's a self-reflexive note in "morpheme" and possibly "rosette." Maybe the whole thing was created by a "tardy binocular enthusiast."





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