Fictionwocky Leg 1

So, I’ve decided to take part in Mac Sitko’s collaborative project for May – Fictionwocky: A Beast of Thirty-One Legs. You can find the prompts for days 1 through 7 here, as well as the rules if you want to contribute.

My contribution for Day/Leg 1:

Final Version:

It seems none can live but profiteers in power, the commodity of power, the motive of profit. The producers’ conflict begins as art to we who write. They sell us, sell us, sell us the lot, but have not the right. We are not commodities, but beings. Books are art, and words tell of the divine, published. See what resistance did to our human kings! 

Cut Up:

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 of motive profit a producers the conflict begin art to

 who write sell us us lot so of the aren’t

 accepting change what commodities just this beings resisted us is

 human often in with We aims to art books be

 art and words tell changed of publish divine make see

 Resistance did the our its human the kings in deodorant

 of Books I art inescapable in books write then often

 by capitalism power right

Original Text:

I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this — letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write.

Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

From Ursula K. Le Guin’s National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters acceptance speech.