This book is a human-machine collaboration and implements a procedure known as Rogetification, where a source text is transformed using a thesaurus. In this case, an electronic copy of Roget’s thesaurus was put into spreadsheet form alongside a copy of The Book of Genesis, also in spreadsheet form. Formulae generating random numbers and look up tables were then used to swap words in The Book of Genesis for synonyms found in Roget’s thesaurus. Certain words integral to the basic sense of the orginal, such as personal pronouns, were excluded from this process. This machine produced text was then edited manually, with some synonyms being swapped for others, and other changes made for grammatical and syntactical reasons. The final text can be thought of as a translation.

Published in 2015 by Stranger Press.