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[Today's work of electronic literature: We feel fine].

A huge part of my work in discovering and exploring electronic literature deals with surfing the Web searching for interesting examples of this new literary phenomenon. Being its definitions and boundaries still blurred, and being creativity and fantasy its fundamental characteristics, you can happen to find manifold diverse examples out there.

For instance, We feel Fine can be considered as a continuously up-to-date enciclopedia of feelings. Every ten minutes it starts scanning a series of blog looking for sentences that open with “I feel” or “I am feeling”. Then the different moods are catalogued according six different “movements”, as its founders call them. I don’t know if it can be actually considered literature, but the question whether blogging is a literary phenomenon or not is still open. Maybe this gives you the chance to think a little bit about it…

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