Consider different fading systems

.gitignore

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+*-autoloads.el
+*.elc

README.org

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  - using a file name =(setq oblique-edition "strategies/oblique-strategies-edition-4.txt")=
  - or customize (using the name of the edition) =M-x customize-group RET oblique-strategies RET=
 
+Other related (or unrelated) sources of inspiration and misdirection can be consulted, such as
+- [[https://curatorsintl.org/records/20290-do-it-home][do it (home)]] version: 5.7.2020  =(setq oblique-edition "strategies/do-it-abridged.txt")=
+- [[https://kevinlawler.com/prompts][Prompts for Programmers]]  =(setq oblique-edition "strategies/prompts-for-programmers.txt")=
+
 * Further
   - [[https://www.enoshop.co.uk/product/oblique-strategies.html][Physical Non-Musical]] (Eno Shop)
   - [[http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/osfaq2.html][The More-Or-Less Complete and True History of the Oblique Strategies]] (1995)

oblique.el

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 ;; Author: nik gaffney <nik@fo.am>
 ;; Created: 2011-11-11
 ;; Version: 0.1
-;; Keywords: strategy, tactics, creativity
+;; Keywords: strategy, tactics, creativity, tools
 ;; URL: https://github.com/zzkt/oblique-strategies
 
 ;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
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 ;;
 ;; Oblique Strategies © 1975, 1978, 1979, and 2002 Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
 
+;;; Configuration:
+
+;; with use-package...
+;;   (use-package litanize
+;;      :config (defalias 'insert-litany #'litanize-at-point)
+;;              (setq oblique-edition
+;;                    "strategies/oblique-strategies-condensed.txt")
+;;      :bind (("H-i l" . insert-litany)))
+
 ;;; Revision history:
 ;;
 ;;  - 2011-11-11 - protoversion, collection, collation
-;;  - 2019-12-12 - melpa emersion, stochastism
+;;  - 2019-12-12 - emersion, stochastism
-
+;;  - 2023-04-05 - emacs 29 compatibility (via @PuercoPop)
 
 ;;; Code:
 
 (defgroup oblique-strategies nil
-  "Once the search has begun, something will be found"
+  "Once the search has begun, something will be found."
   :group 'stochastism)
 
 (defcustom oblique-edition "strategies/oblique-strategies-condensed.txt"
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            (const :tag "Edition 4 (1996)" :value "strategies/oblique-strategies-edition-4.txt")
            (const :tag "Edition 3 (1979)" :value "strategies/oblique-strategies-edition-3.txt")
            (const :tag "Edition 2 (1978)" :value "strategies/oblique-strategies-edition-2.txt")
-	   (const :tag "Edition 1 (1975)" :value "strategies/oblique-strategies-edition-1.txt")))
+           (const :tag "Edition 1 (1975)" :value "strategies/oblique-strategies-edition-1.txt")
+           ))
 
-(defun read-lines (file)
+(defun oblique--read (file)
-  "Read a file into a list of lines."
+  "Read FILE into a list of lines."
   (with-temp-buffer
       (insert-file-contents (expand-file-name
                              file (file-name-directory load-file-name)))
     (split-string (buffer-string) "\n" t)))
 
-(defvar strategies (read-lines oblique-edition))
+(defvar oblique-strategies (oblique--read oblique-edition))
 
-(defun random-elt (list)
+(defun oblique--elt (list)
+  "Return a random element from LIST."
   (nth (random (length list)) list))
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun oblique-strategy ()
-  "An obique strategy."
+  "An oblique strategy."
   (interactive)
-  (random-elt strategies))
+  (oblique--elt oblique-strategies))
 
 ;;;###autoload
-(defun insert-oblique-strategy ()
+(defun oblique-strategy-at-point ()
-  "Insert an obique strategy at point."
+  "Insert an oblique strategy at point."
   (interactive)
   (insert (oblique-strategy)))
 

strategies/do-it-abridged.txt

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+Let’s try one of the infinite ways to start.
+Wash your hands—it creates expectation.
+Locate a television with a generous selection of satellite offerings.
+Utilize the fibonacci sequence.
+Marvel the stunning mediocrity of our manmade wonder.
+Allow contraction and expansion of the ego in a tempo that feels pleasurable, modulating it as you would your sphincter
+Return to any step of the instruction in tandem with your curiosity
+Following Gertrude Stein, every now and then sit with your back on nature.
+Type the name of your favorite top 40 song
+Press Enter
+Do not sweep the floor for a week.
+Sweep all the accumulated dust into one large pile.
+Watch the orderly centralized pile disintegrate into a chaotic decentralized field.
+Collect all the remote controls.
+Remove all the images, words, and numbers.
+Ask someone who is unfamiliar with the system.
+Turn off the lights.
+Using a pipe and a cable detector locate all the cables and metalwork hidden below the surface of chosen wall. Loosely mark their location using a light blue pencil.
+Watch TV with the sound turned off for one hour.
+CLEAR YOUR MIND OF ALL THOUGHTS
+DEFINE SOMETHING THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCOMPLISH. MAP OUT THE PLAN. DO IT.
+Do something that is: visually striking, socially radical, conceptually and contextually sensitive, sustainable, in the public domain (outside of art venues), and hurts no living thing—something that will change the world.
+Study for time.
+move your finger up and down for one minute every morning.
+Write down your fears on a white square piece of rice paper.
+Repeat until you have a garden.
+Use any material or objects.
+Apply glitter on your eyes and glabella and roll your eyes up to see the starry sky.
+What about a game, like the Game Of Twenty Questions.
+Close your eyes, concentrate, and blow.
+Imagine and invent five titles of books that you would like all children to read and enjoy.
+Remember, these books don’t exist.

strategies/prompts-for-programmers.txt

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+Look for a hack.
+Look for a good enough approximation.
+Have faith in sound-looking abstractions.
+Forget about optimizing your code.
+Solve the problem directly.
+Feats are fragile.
+Build a theory of the problem.
+Shear off a layer.
+Get red and green right before mixing yellow.
+A blink lasts 300 milliseconds.
+Zoom in.
+Add constraints.
+Mark it: WONTFIX
+Write the README
+Verify your fears, explicitly.
+Keep calm.
+Take a closer look.
+Is it the bug you think it is?
+Is it a typo?
+Stop and think.
+If you lack motivation, find the most interesting thing and branch from there.
+Work append-only.
+Run through the thornbushes.
+Change your mind.
+Power through.
+Look for ways to chain tools.
+Backtrack.
+Flip the problem around.
+Work forward from where the unfinished part of the code suggests you should.
+List dependencies to determine order of completion.
+Try the naïve method first.
+Do it both ways.
+Verify that your assumptions are correct.
+Every bug hunt is at worst a log time search through the code base.
+Write down everything you know about the problem.
+This process usually converges: If you're stuck, finish some remaining piece. Then go back and check to see what new possibilities opened up. Repeat.
+Form hypothesis, test hypothesis, repeat.
+Have opinions.
+Have goals and subdivide them.
+Do it the wrong way.
+Do something.
+Put the problem aside and work on something else.
+A line has two sides.
+Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture).
+Always, first steps.
+Ask your body.
+Breathe deeply.
+Cascades.
+Consider changing nothing, continue with immaculate consistency.
+Cluster analysis.
+Consult other sources.
+Courage!
+Cut a vital connection.
+Decorate,  decorate.
+"Define an area as 'safe' and use it as an anchor."
+Discard an axiom.
+Disconnect from desire.
+"Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do."
+"Don't be frightened of cliches."
+"Don't break the silence."
+Do some clean up.
+Do the names need changing?
+Emphasize differences.
+Emphasize repetition.
+Emphasize the flaws.
+Give way to your worst impulse.
+Honor the error as a hidden intention.
+How would you have done it?
+Infinitesimal gradations.
+Is it finished?
+Is there something missing?
+Keep going.
+Look at a very small object, look at its centre.
+Look at the order in which you are doing things.
+Make an exhaustive list of everything you could do. Do the last thing on the list.
+Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate.
+Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics.
+Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities.
+Repetition is a form of change.
+Go the other direction.
+Take a break.
+Stand up.
+Look away for a while.
+Tidy up.
+Twist the spine.
+Use an old idea.
+Water.
+What were you really thinking about just now? Incorporate.
+What mistakes did you make last time?
+What would someone you admire do?
+What wouldn't you do?
+Work at a different speed.
+You are an engineer.
+Take a walk.
+Look to the left and the right.
+Stretch your neck.