For the first blessed time ever, I'm getting my students to make things with words and paper in my poetry analysis class. A (little) bit of what Ian Bogost calls carpentry. It's been on my mind for a while to get them to do this but now I have the grading apparatus in place to make it work.
So for this week's first homework, you have to put two words on a single sheet of paper in three different ways, and discuss the effects of doing so.
Inside
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Emptiness
Inside
Empty
Insideness
nothing
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something
nothing
some
no
(bonus extra points:)
no
some
(du soleil)
Being
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Invisible
Being
Being
Invisibly