Maps is a series of digital transformations of Emily Dickinson's poem
"I cross till I am weary". 6 variations on the poem were created
using speech recognition software.
Each variation uses a distinct source text to "map" the sounds of the
original poem onto the closest available phonemes in a new vocabulary.
0. Prologue
Emily Dickinson, "I cross till I am weary" (1862)
I cross till I am weary
A Mountain — in my mind —
More Mountains — then a Sea —
More Seas — And then
A Desert — find —
And My Horizon blocks
With steady — drifting — Grains
Of unconjectured quantity —
As Asiatic Rains —
Nor this — defeat my Pace —
It hinder from the West
But as an Enemy's Salute
One hurrying to Rest —
What merit had the Goal —
Except there intervene
Faint Doubt — and far Competitor —
To jeopardize the Gain?
At last — the Grace in sight —
I shout unto my feet —
I offer them the Whole of Heaven
The instant that we meet —
They strive — and yet delay —
They perish — Do we die —
Or is this Death's Experiment —
Reversed — in Victory?
1. Mountain
Maps for America, "Glossary of Cartography and Map Terminology" (1988)
Are still an varies
A mountain in by minor
More mountain such the sea
More sea is and and
And as or fine
And minor rise and part
Placed and aids to to the terrain
Is of an conjunction quantities
As a geologic ranges
North as to the mark carries
And of from the west
But as an arm in the so limits
One are into routes to
Water at the called
Extent to their interval means
Chain to routes and for comparison
Project or data studying and?
At class to the gradations side
Measure outer onto mile the
By are further in the whole of have and
The density between made
Base chart and object to lengths
The direction to regard
Or is the steps exposure
And reversed in picture in?
2. Grains
Marion Harris Neil, A Calendar of Dinners, with 615 recipes (1922)
Crust shell and berries
Amount and in wire minus
More mound and stir then add seeds
More seeds and then
A gas or fine
And let rise until ox
Ways then these chicken grains
Of on tinge enters quantity
As occasion add to grains
Nor this to feet light paste
Tender from the waxed
But as anatomy is so lid
One are into rest
Water and have the cold
Except very injure beans
Faint hours then for come to air or
To jar bird hours begins?
Add last the grease inside
Measure out on to a knife the
I over them the whole of have and
The instant it we meat
A sharp and again to lay
The parent to retards
Or used is best experiments
Or first in a thick during?
3. Rest
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988)
For us to lie unwary
A mountain in my mind of
More my our means that us each
More seized and then
Would have searched find
And one horizon blocks
Waves then these trip to grand is
That one conjecture quantities
As the geodesic rays
Nor this to feet might pace
Under from the west
Protons and are many absolute
One are into rest
Wonder at the goal
Except their intervene
Change our is an for come heavier
To chapter caused against?
At last the great inside
Measure out onto my feed
By are for them the whole of have ends
The instant that we made
They charge and yet to lay
They barrier should to we charge
Or was this gas experiment
Reversed in favor during?
4. Doubt
List of male inmates (from U.S. Public inmate records)
Costello, M. Larry
R. Mountain; N.Y. Martinez
Moore Mullins; Dennis C.
Morris E.; Hughes, Anthony
R. Diaz; Eric Fine
Juan R.; Isaac Watts
Willis Thaddeus; Tipton H. Raines
A. Blanton Jack; Church, Conte T.
Jose G.; Outing Graves
Norris Durfey; Mark Pace
Andrew Fernando–West
Button, R.; Mesa Lute
Juan R.; Angel Resto
Roy A. Merritt; Patrick Alls
X. Atteberry–Jurgen
Fain Dallas; N. Fordham–Penner
George R.; Burgos de Gaines?
Chad Laster; Grayson Sipe
Rashad Dumas; F.E.
Kyle R. Fernandez; Holte Hammonds
D. Vincent; Edwin H.
Eddie Charles; Benedetto Lay
Dave Parish; Dooley Darius
Ores Vasquez; X. Parent
Herbert, N.; Victor E.?
5. Shout
Concise Oxford English Dictionary, "100 Most Common English Words" (2004)
Our us will an we year its
An now into in my my us
Or my our and so then us see
Or see use an then
But as or time
And my our our as into want
Which then these to can her as
Of on can she after want to
As any she out take way as
Your this to she my can these
If and of from the want
But as an on any so good its
One our into or out
What or how because
Its at there into he
Think out its can for come have year
Two just or as the get?
At not look or use an so like
By she out on two my the
Our for them because have and
The and as we make
They two our and get two a
They our she two we day our its
Or use just at see our and
Or first in think your a?
6. Die
Bulletin of Yale University, "Obituary Record of Yale Graduates" (1928)
Charge to law am where he
The mountain in wire mine at
More mountain stock then as siege
More cities and then
A pastor finance
And mine arising to walk
School was then gave a trip to grandson
Of and in chapters on duty
As a geology grain since
Nor this defeated wife and a sketch
Defender from the west
But was an artillery saloon
Its one are interest
Was married at the golf
Except there injured eighteen
Came to hours and for company entered
Church occurred at against?
At last the grades since lived
Shot on to life he
I offered him that whole of have and
The and student at which made
The charge and again to lay
The parish duly charge
Wars his death experiments
For first in securing?