OuLiPo
Perhaps I'm late, but I just noticed Languagehat and others have mentioned the OuLiPo group (the Ouvroir de Litt?rature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature), and suggest others do the same. That's a nice coincidence because yesterday I googled the name, yet searched in vain for a good site. This is due to my latest attempt to write about Jacques Roubaud's 1989 novel The Great Fire of London. He is a member of OuLiPo, and a mathematician by trade. Without doubt, his writing is informed by maths, but, to be honest, I can't be bothered to be even remotely interested. I am writing about the novel because I think it needs to be rescued from the talking-loudly-in-bars OuLiPo/hypertext crowd who link it to brightly-coloured entertainments and leave it at that.
Tomorrow is a date for numerically-minded folk to enjoy: 03/03/03. William Meegan's extraordinary site on Dante is the destination on Monday then. Dante was obsessed with the number three. There must be a joke or two in there somewhere (not that you'll find one on Mr Meegan's site!)
