Wordle & the Poetics of Space - UNLV Scarlet and Gray

Wordle & the Poetics of Space - UNLV Scarlet and Gray

In a small dive bar, a man sits alone.  Deep red lights fog up the darkness of the wooden, encasing air. Music plays: songs from twenty, thirty, forty years ago – songs universally known and universally loved. An unsteady flow of footsteps coming and going traces behind. The crowd here is good. Midnight is just forty-five minutes away.  This man is alone, it is nearly midnight, and he is playing the Wordle. James Doubek, writing for NPR, describ…