This piece is a kind of textual found-object. I had just captioned a half-hour late-night stint from a 24-hour news channel. Off air, I was combing over my output and teaching Dragon the words and phrases it got wrong, so it would learn for next time. After the session of training my Dragon, I was struck by this strange body of text. It compiled only the words and phrases which had defied easy comprehension, for one reason or another, and then repeated them again and again. There was some context (Dragon learns better with realistic syntax) but never enough. And I wondered whose voice it represented. Mine? My Dragon’s? The newsroom’s? The viewers’?
How To Train Your Dragon
Burned them alive, burned them alive, burned them alive.
Burned them alive, burned them alive, burned them alive.
Burned them alive, burned them alive, burned them alive.
They burned them alive. They burned them alive. They burned them alive.
They burned them alive.
They helped destroy.
Everyone here has a terrifying tale.
Alive, à la.
We have the blessing of Allah. We have Allah's blessing.
We have Allah's blessing. We have the blessing of Allah. Allah.
The Imam tells us this is our last test.
The Imam tells us this is our last test.
The Imam tells us this is our last test.
We await instructions from our Imam.
A large bull elephant.
A look at the morning's newspapers.
A look at the morning's newspapers.
A look at the morning's newspapers.
A look at the morning's newspapers.
A look at the morning's newspapers.
According to rumour,
Francois Hollande. President Hollande.
We listened to so much evidence
we listened to so much evidence.
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