PEARL AND OTHER POEMS
the reading room — every file of the seat, direct — the art object and its machine score, both behind the door
| file | kind | size |
|---|---|---|
| MANIFEST.sha256 | sha256 | 0 KB |
| original/pearl-and-other-poems-2014.pdf | PDF (art object) | 11.4 MB |
| source.json | data (JSON) | 4 KB |
| text/pearl-machine-text.txt | text | 138 KB |
Every other seat on this shelf is a primary source the archive fetched from elsewhere. This one is the archive's own poems, placed on the same shelf under the same discipline and offered to the machine reader on identical terms. The PDF is the artwork — typography, plates, the vertical field of the page are the work. The machine text is a score, rendered from per-word PDF geometry onto a character grid so lineation and whitespace survive extraction. Neither substitutes for the other, which is why the seat carries both. Canonical at #1121.