Oulipost #10: Snowball

Today’s Challenge: “This procedure requires the first word of a text to have only one letter, the second two, the third three, and so on as far as resourcefulness and inspiration allow. The first word of a snowball is normally a vowel: in English, a I or O.

From your newspaper, select a starting vowel and then continue adding words of increasing length from the same source article or passage. Challenge yourself further by only using words in order as you encounter them in the text.”  

Full disclosure – I didn’t remember the final challenge here, so I selected all my words from the front page of the Arts section of the 04/10/14 New York Times, but did not maintain them in order.

 

A
Mr.
who
took
power

Vacant
choices
inspired
byzantine
statements

Politicians
conversations
Congressional
representative
schlockmeisters