The Probability
Sebastian Rozenberg
I’d like those of you who’ve placed a stake in this lottery to think about the difficult
choice you may have to make.
It appears that the lotteries used to be common in the region, but some villages
have given up the practice.
holding their slips of paper above their heads.
recent trends in the charity sector
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writing and the market =
writing your name on a slip of paper puts it on the market
marking a paper with a black ink circle is an allegory for currency
the end of probability
the end of paintings not inspired by random text
bleed rain from desiccated clients
this text has a firm set of rules, and this sentence occurs 25 times in the source
material, to ensure its inclusion in the final poem
a black spot on it
the ‘community’ in the story could be metaphor
all metaphor is allegorical
It was blank.
The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box
now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the
oldest man in town, was born.
Lastly, he considers the definition of a percentage to be the lottery of error instead
of the lottery of an answer’s relevance.
Wizard of Odds
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With more than 23 persons in a room the chances are more than 50-50
that two of them will share a birthday (same day, maybe different years).
With more than 23 persons in a room the chances are more than 50-50
that two of them will have had sex with each other.
With more than 23 artists in a room the chances are more than 50-50
that two of them will be making art about the ontology of finance.
Many websites offer explanations for this “birthday paradox”
Rules of stopping are based on posterior probabilities.
Rules of stoning are based on posterior probabilities.
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allegory also contains authority
if you speak in this imaginary structure, it’s because other choices felt limiting
a dice is a site for error
until the last slip of paper is drawn from the black box, my world will solely consist
of the future
but chance is real
poetry rebranded as sentiment monitoring
automated and distributed chances
for display
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a printed poem to explain the show
By now, all through the crowd there were men holding the small folded papers in
their large hands, turning them over and over nervously.
fine art, when it’s good, is like chess
any game board, whether its purpose is domestic entertainment or fiscal
governance, is a visual systematization of a rule
art crowd casting agent
it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into the black box
what have we done when all the dice
come up sevens
as chance would have it, my practice is centered around pricing surface
a poem on ultimate risk
to constantly praise a good thing
to praise a thing randomly
markets exist
tradability and exchangeability is cause for celebration
a stoning is not a lottery
as a piece of paper is not a poem
each are their own thing