Exquisite word-corpses? Perhaps this breed of spammers consists of radical disciples of Breton.

Somewhere around here I have a fragment I wrote regarding a Surrealist dictionary, which I shall try to locate.

Tourette's word salads are even better.

Somewhere we have a copy of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and there a few passages in there that record the dialog of people with various aphasias which is very interesting. The one I am thinking of is a an aphasic trying to describe a pair a scissors ("a grove ... a nail ... two pair of groves and handle ..." or something like that).

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves."

That script has a long and honorable history, beginning with, I believe a Markov-chain word-sampling program developed at the MIT AI lab back when. But the most common modern versions are called the "Dissociated Press."

"The Revelation of St. Alice" can be seen at . You may be aware of the person to blame, Andrew Plotkin.

I'll happily give you the address of my schizophrenic cousin who is always happy to get letters. Though I think you might not find his prose so wonderful when you realize it's attached to a very real, very sad and frustrated human being. At some level the word salad is only delightful when it can be removed from organic origin, at least for me.

im doing a presentation on schizophrenia and id love to get in touch with someone who has experieced it ( a brother or sister, even perhaps someone actually diagnosed if they would cooperate) because it is a presentation from that perspective. Please email me if you have information.

im doing a play called "voice" which is about schizophrenia. ive got alot of info of the net from numerous people.(i.e doctors, families and people who have suffered from schizophrenia) but i still dont understand what "word salads" are. i would like to incorporate these into the play but i dont understand it. how do they say it? do they know their saying it? what do they think their saying? does it mean anything? who are they talking to when they say it? if anybody has any information on the subject i would be so gratefull. thankyou.