Permutations

Shifting words

The following exercise also comes from Bryon Gysin's Permutations in the work I THINK THEREFORE I AM.

Although it is a much simpler case, with a linear placing of the last word to the start of a new sentence, and therefore not requiring recursion.

Despite its simplicity, I find striking the various meanings that emerge from this shifting of elements. From exclamations, to questions, and broken English. And the lack of punctuation allows the reader to place commas, question marks, exclamation marks, full stops where she feels adequate to convey the meaning of each sentence.

def shift(sentence):
    head = sentence.split(' ') #var should be given another name 
    n =0 
    for i, letter in enumerate(head):
        if i == 0:
            newsentence = head
        else:
            newhead = head[0:-i] #between [0] and [i] #BCD, BC, B # B
            tail = head[len(head)-n:]
            newsentence = tail + newhead
            n += 1
        outstr = (' ').join(newsentence)
        yield outstr


sentence='I think therefore I am'    
for i in shift(sentence):
    print i.upper()
print 

sentence = 'In the beginning was the Word'
for i in shift(sentence):
    print i.upper()
    
print
sentence = 'Quem planta ventos colhe tempestades'
for i in shift(sentence):
    print i.upper()

I THINK THEREFORE I AM
I THINK THEREFORE I
AM I THINK THEREFORE
I AM I THINK
THEREFORE I AM I

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE
WORD IN THE BEGINNING WAS
THE WORD IN THE BEGINNING
WAS THE WORD IN THE
BEGINNING WAS THE WORD IN

QUEM PLANTA VENTOS COLHE TEMPESTADES
QUEM PLANTA VENTOS COLHE
TEMPESTADES QUEM PLANTA VENTOS
COLHE TEMPESTADES QUEM PLANTA
VENTOS COLHE TEMPESTADES QUEM

2016_08_17 Blog