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Rorschach Word Pool

Rorschach Word Pool is derived from the old Rorschach Ink Blot test used in psychoanalysis. Instead of using a card with random smears of ink, the "subject" observes a random selection of words. The subject (or rather the writer) then reorders and morphs each word so that the resulting text has meaning. Additional connective or supportive words can be added.(For example, words like "the","is","I","at" can be used liberally). But the goal is to add as few new words as possible. Tenses can be changed and words restructured (as long as the root remains). The optimal conclusion to this exercise sees all words from the random pool used in a new text which makes sense. This is a difficult goal, and most often there is no possible way to arrange all of the random words into something meanignful. The real value of this process is that in trying to establish some meaningful text, the participant could expose some tendencies to want to organize things according to pre-existing, but previously hidden narratives. The following is an example constructed from the first pool of random words generated by clicking Random Pool: conditionality epitheliums reluctant disdained affiances besetting alcoholization repudiates massage oilily ineffectiveness postponement provisions queaziest bowsed bloodings traversing cupbearer affrights morph mediately slowness dimple pachysandras cislunar punned prosceniums comforting heirloom concertizes venture geotropically briticism sigmoid mauves messiest scratched mines bartending graph misspells misdoubt vaporously incompleteness dogdom interventions unwariest trotted chammies wiving moviedom aggregates orate superlatively darwinism Reassembled Words: Sigmoid The Cupbearer scratched his oily epithelium. He was a reluctant bartender, beset with the queazy orations of British moviedom's alcoholic wives. Intervening and mediating in messy bloodings, he massaged and comforted the egos of many a dimpled fiance who had left the cislunar superlatives, traversed a course of reverse darwinism, slowly morphed, and now geotropically mined the depths of dogdom.