{"id":17985,"date":"2025-10-31T07:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17985"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:17:33","slug":"the-epic-of-mitorzp-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/31\/the-epic-of-mitorzp-fragment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Epic of Mitorzp (fragment)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mitorzp-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"A lined index card with lines of cut up teletype paper tape stuck to it. The tapes read: HE F=RIDZT GOT T BAZU N LH EENGER COULDDARA= LSEEWTARM. = LISON =ASWHJDOO ZAS ZETH MI=TI ZEAC OS B=PN LLHERE T-R=RS =WE=Z=PNS=E M HIZI VALD R G M M ANT =ART=H MITORZP PBTHAT L EEUEB XTAZ=ECL EELING F OMB= ICKSAWN=LTO HIS ENZ= The words MITORZP and ICKSAWN are highlighted, the first in pink and the second in yellow.\" class=\"wp-image-17986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mitorzp-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mitorzp-320x206.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mitorzp-160x103.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mitorzp-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mitorzp.jpg 1192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">teleprinter tape glued to index card, 15 \u00d7 10 cm, paper\/card\/highlighter pencils (2025)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the only surviving fragment of <strong>The Epic of Mitorzp<\/strong>. It was transmitted by an unknown intelligence, but discarded by human operators as mere line noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-medium-font-size\">HE F=RIDZT GOT<br>   T BAZU N LH EENGER COULDDARA=<br> LSEEWTARM. = LISON =ASWHJDOO ZAS ZETH<br>  MI=TI ZEAC OS B=PN LLHERE T-R=RS<br>=WE=Z=PNS=E M HIZI VALD R G M<br>    M ANT =ART=H MITORZP PBTHAT L<br>   EEUEB XTAZ=ECL EELING F OMB=<br>     ICKSAWN=LTO HIS ENZ=<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Who was Mitorzp? A hero? An outcast? We will never know. This tiny remnant can only hint at the colossal magnitude of the lost epic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the only surviving fragment of The Epic of Mitorzp. It was transmitted by an unknown intelligence, but discarded by human operators as mere line noise. HE F=RIDZT GOT T BAZU N LH EENGER COULDDARA= LSEEWTARM. = LISON =ASWHJDOO ZAS ZETH MI=TI ZEAC OS B=PN LLHERE T-R=RS=WE=Z=PNS=E M HIZI VALD R G M M [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Epic of Mitorzp (fragment): teleprinter noise as poetry\n\n#dada #pasteup #teleprinter #teletype #art","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[3359,3358,3360,2481,3356,3357],"class_list":["post-17985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-cut-up","tag-dada","tag-pasteup","tag-poetry","tag-teleprinter","tag-teletype"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4G5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17990,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17985\/revisions\/17990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}