surprised nobody mentioned puns, which strike me as the classic way to trojan horse one meaning through another. this isn't *writing* per se but it's fun to consider:https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/993521866651381764 …
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I was going for a couple of abstraction levels higher
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I don't have a copy at hand, but there's a brilliant echo-poem which Kingsley Amis sends to Philip Larkin (I think, may be vicey versey) where the 'echo' indicts the subject of the line, e.g., "Endymion, where does Keats finish it? (SHIT)". Ex of form here:pic.twitter.com/kNldOmeX5d
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Isn’t that the point of poetry
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Oulipo also comes to mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
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house of leaves? tao lin?
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Roger Zelazny's hobby of occasionally putting a page-long grammatically correct sentence in a piece (most memorably in Lord of Light) comes to mind
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Anthony Burgess, “A Clockwork Orange”; Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick”; Twain, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”; much skillful dialect fiction
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