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Obfuscator


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Poets and critics alike can use the "Pataphysical Software Company's Obfuscator 1.0 to make any poem more complicated without losing any of the original words of the poem.


For critics...

Exegesis got you down? Explication got your head going round? Tired of looking for that kernel of meaning in a poem? If you're suspicious of the practice of criticism that tries to interpret the poem to reconstruct an intended sense, or relate what a poet was saying in simpler terms, then The "Pataphysical Software Company's Obfuscator 1.0 is the answer for you.

Since criticism, for the most part, only surrounds poems with excess verbiage--making poetry more obtuse than clear--why not perform the same function with the very words of the actual poem! There's no need to depart from the poem to establish an interpretive framework when the poem itself offers us endless opportunities to alienate readers with more complicated language. With Obfuscator 1.0, you can unleash the poem's hidden power to interpret itself!

For poets...

Is your poetry too simplistic? Do you wish you had a larger, more extensive vocabulary? If you're bored with your old habitual tropes and your standard personal lexicon, The "Pataphysical Software Company's Obfuscator 1.0 can help you break free into new realms of poetic complexity.

Rather than throwing out those old unsuccessful poems, the Obfuscator can bring them back to life as new, dynamic, intricate poems that seem infinitely more complex. The Obfuscator produces consistent increases in difficulty on all major readability tests, and this power can be yours courtesy of The "Pataphysical Software Company.


Product

The Obfuscator creates a new poem from your old poem by a simple yet elegant process: it takes each word, and finds longer words that contain the original word in their constituent letters, giving you the option of which to choose. For instance, if you obfuscate the word cat, the Obfuscator gives you the option of choosing from chat, cardinality, exacerbating, incarnation, socialist, vilification, and witchcraft. The Obfuscator takes just three easy steps:

  1. Enter poem for processing.
  2. Select new words from the lists provided.
  3. Read and save the obfuscated poem to a file.

Without losing the words of the original poem, The Obfuscator creates--as if by magic--a new more complex poem through the power of obfuscation.


Sample

This fragment of a children's song has been obfuscated with The "PSC Obfuscator

The Original Poem

the cat came back
the very next day
the cat came back
he thought he was a goner
but the cat came back
he just wouldnt stay away

The "PSC Obfuscated Poem

brothel carting scampers blackouts
interchanged diversifying contextually budgetary
astonishment consolidating charmed blackberries
brandishes thoughts frighten wails damask trigonometry
beauty breathes captive's chairmen black
archaicness jousted wouldnt standby stalwartly

The Original Poem Revealed

brothel carting scampers blackouts
interchanged diversifying contextually budgetary
astonishment consolidating charmed blackberries
brandishes thoughts frighten wails damask trigonometry
beauty breathes captive's chairmen black
archaicness jousted wouldnt standby stalwartly

The chilldren's song has been obfuscated beyond recognition, showing the power of the "PSC Obfuscator to make even the most simple children's poem unweildy, plodding, and needlessly complex.