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Author: nik gaffney <nik@fo.am>
Date:   Sat Jan 19 21:03:39 2019 +0000

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+** Latour Litanizer
+
+"When writing Alien Phenomenology I found myself wondering, what would happen if we put ontography, Latour Litany, and carpentry together? Here’s one simple take, a 'Latour Litanizer.' It uses Wikipedia’s random page API to generate lists of things [...] Like all Latour Litanies, this little gadget underscores the rich diversity of things. It also reminds us that human beings are among them, since a large number of Wikipedia articles describe living and historical persons." —Ian Bogost
+
+This is a simple version of Ian Bogost's method of generating "Latour Litanies" in emacs as a further (or furthering) exercise in ontography, metaphorism, and carpentry.
+
+** Litanizing
+ 
+~M-x litanize~  will generate a litany in a new buffer
+
+~M-x insert-litany~ will generate a litany at the point
+
+** Further 
+
+ - http://bogost.com/writing/blog/latour_litanizer/
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+;;; litanize.el --- generate "Latour Litanies"
+
+;; Copyright 2019 FoAM oü
+;;
+;; AUTHOR: nik gaffney <nik@fo.am>
+;; Created: 2019-01-19
+;; Version: 0.1
+;; Keywords: Latour Litany, alien phenomenology, ontography, metaphorism, carpentry
+;; X-URL: https://github.com/zzkt/litanize 
+
+;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
+
+;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+;;
+;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+;; Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; a simple version of Ian Bogost's method of generating "Latour Litanies"
+;; from random wikipedia titles as an exercise in ontography, metaphorism,
+;; and carpentry
+;;
+;; currently uses random wikipedia titles as elements. might be extended to
+;; use other lists in other futures.
+;; 
+;; 'M-x litanize'  will generate a litany in a new buffer
+;;
+;; 'M-x insert-litany' will generate a litany at the point
+;;
+;; further -> http://bogost.com/writing/blog/latour_litanizer/
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(provide 'litanize)
+(eval-when-compile
+  (require 'cl))
+
+(require 'enlive) 
+;; enlive can be installed via melpa or from https://github.com/zweifisch/enlive
+
+
+(defun random-wp-title ()
+  (s-chop-suffix
+   " - Wikipedia"
+   (nth 2 (enlive-query
+	   (enlive-fetch "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random")
+	   [title]))))
+
+(defun litanize ()
+  "Create a Latour Litany in it's own buffer"
+  (interactive)
+  (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*latour litany*")
+    (erase-buffer)
+    (dotimes (i 5)
+      (insert (random-wp-title))
+      (cond ((<= i 2) (insert ", "))
+	    ((=  i 3) (insert " & "))
+	    ((=  i 4) (insert "."))))))
+
+
+(defun insert-litany ()
+  "Create a Latour Litany at the current point"
+  (interactive)
+    (dotimes (i 5)
+      (insert (random-wp-title))
+      (cond ((<= i 2) (insert ", "))
+	    ((=  i 3) (insert " & "))
+	    ((=  i 4) (insert ".")))))
+
+(defun latour-litany (length)
+  "generate an arbitary (or random) length litany as a string"
+)
+
+
+
+;;;;##########################################################################
+;;;;  User Options, Variables
+;;;;##########################################################################
+
+
+;;; litanize.el ends here
+