The Globe and Mail on Christian Bök's Xenotext Experiment

'Christian Bök ... is struggling manfully to teach bugs to write poetry ... Deinococcus radiodurans may not be the most lyrical bacterium, but once he teaches it to store and even create poetry, Bök theorizes, it will never stop. “It could be on the planet when the sun explodes,” he says. “Effectively I’m trying to write a book that would last forever.”

Eunoia continues to do well in the meantime, so much so that Bök is travelling to Toronto this month to take part in the Open House Festival, where his “dazzling word games,” to quote The Times newspaper, will be set to music by Canadian rocker Dave Bidini as part of the festival’s Torn from the Pages program.'

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