Turing, Winograd, or Whither

An interesting concept from literary theory states that if a reader wants to make sense of a text, then he will find an interpretation of that text that is consistent with his own world view, or perhaps more precisely, with his view of the world he supposes the text to concern. Oftentimes, to fulfill such a desire requires the reader to fill gaps in his own knowledge, as well as gaps in the logic or rhetoric of the writer by reading between the lines. In this way, all texts are essentially a dialogue initiated by the writer and continued by the reader, with the reader forming, perhaps erroneously, the intentions of the writer. Upon learning of this concept, I fell enamored with writing poetical nonsense with snippets of text found in books and magazines.ᵃ I was excited by the idea of reader attempting to interpret meaning from my curated words and phrases and by doing so finding his own meaning in the resulting lines; perhaps this excitement is a form of sadism -- I don't know -- but during my cut-and-paste creative process, each poem began to take on a personal meaning to me, so perhaps not.