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=== William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter's "Racter" ===
{{Citazione|Slide and tumble and fall among<br/>
The dead. Here and there<br/>
Will be found a utensil.|[[Racter]], "[[The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed]]"|lingua=}}
In spite of its popularity, the Cybernetic Poet was not the only poetry generator from the mid-[[Anni 1980|1980s]]. [[William Chamberlain]] and [[Thomas Etter]]’s [[Racter]], whose namesake derives from ''raconteur'', is a [[software]] written in the [[Linguaggio di programmazione|programming language]] [[BASIC]] that generates prose on an [[IMS]] (Information Management System) computer without prompts from a human operator. A collection of Racter’s early [[fiction]] was published in a book entitled, ''[[The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed]]'' (1984), and aside from spelling mistakes corrected by Chamberlain himself, the text is completely computer-generated.<ref name=":4" /> Racter generates text from a [[Base di dati|database]] containing 2,400 words, matching [[Sostantivo|nouns]] with contextually appropriate [[Aggettivo|adjectives]], and it ensures continuity by tracking used phrases,<ref name=":2">{{Cita libro|autore=Roberto Simanowski|titolo=Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations|anno=2011|editore=University of Minnesota Press|città=Minneapolis|lingua=en|pp=96-97|volume=35}}</ref> allowing the book to have some form of cohesion that we might call a [[Narrativa di genere|narrative]] (even though there are human-drawn sketches that serve as visual aids that potentially contribute to this cohesion). Racter’s choice of words is completely random, producing senseless text that literary critic [[Jack Barley McGraw]] calls “empty text” resembling “[[Dadaismo|Dadaist]] nonsense” that cannot be [[Close reading|close read]]. Any attempt at close reading Racter’s “disturbingly superficial” [[Prosa|prose]], according to McGraw, would be a “conceptual justification (seemingly out of thin air) for vaguely related strings of words.”<ref name=":2" />
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