Oulipo Ends Where the Work Begins: 'Someone brought up, not for the first time that weekend, the concept of the clinamen. This term, borrowed from the atomic theory of the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles, was used by Perec to refer to a break from the constraint of a given work, made for conscious aesthetic reasons, rather than as a means to "cheat" the constraint.'
Oulipo Ends Where the Work Begins: 'Someone brought up, not for the first time that weekend, the concept of the clinamen. This term, borrowed from the atomic theory of the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles, was used by Perec to refer to a break from the constraint of a given work, made for conscious aesthetic reasons, rather than as a means to "cheat" the constraint.'