Now that tickets have just gone on sale for Sarah McLachlan’s
tour for the 30th anniversary of her Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
album, and many are thus back in FTE fever, here are my 1994
list of Scrabble-tiles generated anagrams of "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy”,
followed by three computer generated ones from Paul Phillips.
Feel free to arrange some or all of them into a poem. :-)

Send-date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 5:49:12 UTC-0700
From: David Dalton<dalton@geop.ubc.ca>
To:<fumbling-towards-ecstasy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: crafty woundless gambits (summary of FanaTEgrams)

Well, I played around trying to get anagrams for fte
with as few words as possible and trying not to repeat
strings (hence no "ing" or "umbl", but I did use
"ward") for "fumbling towards ecstasy". Here is the
list, including the few I posted before. I'm still
not happy with the 3 word ones but (should) have better ways
to waste my time. Let me know if you get any more
three or even two word anagrams (anna-marys).

drafty magnetics, sublows
Sandbag, costumer, swiftly!
crafty woundless gambits {woundless is in Oxford Concise d}
swiftly sandbag customer [swiftly sandbag crust 'ome]

croft slid subway magnets
iambs glow defunct satyrs [defunct satyrs glow iambs]
magnetic locus, bawdy firsts
crafty nudes stow gimbals

sturdy magnetic bass flow
crafty gimbals sound west
subcomet tails fang wyrds
swift rats scumbled agony

mesocrust lifts [flits] bandy wag
stigmas cleft by unwords [crafty gambits wound less]
crafty nuts dowse gimbals
fungoids mat crystal's web [crystal's fungoid bats mew]...

bus: crystal woman fidgets
submagnets drift cosy laws
stomal cardings buy wefts

sun ward cleft by moist gas
soma wasted by curt flings
comet is drawn by fat slugs
soft magic tunes slab wyrd
cuts gym, frond wets labias [cuts gym, wrests fond labia]

focus wild magnets by arts [focus wild arts by magnets]
a flat subcomet sings wyrd
cleft bay, moist sung wards
sun facet draws misty globs

I was going to arrange them into some sort of
sense but it's dawn late so "eye wound brought her, eh".

and here are some starting words that didn't work out:

menstrual, minstralery
mandorlas, dragonflys, symbolic
gynobase, flowery, flowers, stigmatas, symbiont
fecundity, scrotums, swords, stigma

I later posted these last three anagrams, generated by computer by
Paul Phillips (I think probably posted on alt.anagrams):

PP: satisfy downcast grumble
PP: forcible gymnast sawdust
PP: declassify strung wombat

Not bad, but the only one I really like is
the first one, and that I didn't find since I
wanted to avoid repeats of "umbl" . The last
two make for some weird images, though --- perhaps:

a heavy gymnast with sandpaper shoes, on the balance beam; and

make public a secret Australian musical instrument that
raises the digeridoo harmonics to new hypnotic levels,
which can induce a "return to the womb" trance.
(I'm sure Mickey Hart can hartly wait).

DRD

--
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https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
"And if I shed a tear I won’t cage it; I won't fear love;
And if I feel a rage I won’t deny it; I won't fear love" (Sarah McLachlan)

David Dalton wrote:
>
> Now that tickets have just gone on sale for Sarah McLachlan’s
> tour for the 30th anniversary of her Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
> album, and many are thus back in FTE fever, here are my 1994
> list of Scrabble-tiles generated anagrams of "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy”,
> followed by three computer generated ones from Paul Phillips.
> Feel free to arrange some or all of them into a poem. :-)

> Send-date: Sun, 3 Jul 1994 5:49:12 UTC-0700
> From: David Dalton<dalton@geop.ubc.ca>
> To:<fumbling-towards-ecstasy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
> Subject: crafty woundless gambits (summary of FanaTEgrams)

> Well, I played around trying to get anagrams for fte
> with as few words as possible and trying not to repeat
> strings (hence no "ing" or "umbl", but I did use
> "ward") for "fumbling towards ecstasy". Here is the
> list, including the few I posted before. I'm still
> not happy with the 3 word ones but (should) have better ways
> to waste my time. Let me know if you get any more
> three or even two word anagrams (anna-marys).

> drafty magnetics, sublows
> Sandbag, costumer, swiftly!
> crafty woundless gambits {woundless is in Oxford Concise d}
> swiftly sandbag customer [swiftly sandbag crust 'ome]

> croft slid subway magnets
> iambs glow defunct satyrs [defunct satyrs glow iambs]
> magnetic locus, bawdy firsts
> crafty nudes stow gimbals

> sturdy magnetic bass flow
> crafty gimbals sound west
> subcomet tails fang wyrds
> swift rats scumbled agony

> mesocrust lifts [flits] bandy wag
> stigmas cleft by unwords [crafty gambits wound less]
> crafty nuts dowse gimbals
> fungoids mat crystal's web [crystal's fungoid bats mew]...

> bus: crystal woman fidgets
> submagnets drift cosy laws
> stomal cardings buy wefts

> sun ward cleft by moist gas
> soma wasted by curt flings
> comet is drawn by fat slugs
> soft magic tunes slab wyrd
> cuts gym, frond wets labias [cuts gym, wrests fond labia]

> focus wild magnets by arts [focus wild arts by magnets]
> a flat subcomet sings wyrd
> cleft bay, moist sung wards
> sun facet draws misty globs

> I was going to arrange them into some sort of
> sense but it's dawn late so "eye wound brought her, eh".

> and here are some starting words that didn't work out:

> menstrual, minstralery
> mandorlas, dragonflys, symbolic
> gynobase, flowery, flowers, stigmatas, symbiont
> fecundity, scrotums, swords, stigma

> I later posted these last three anagrams, generated by computer by
> Paul Phillips (I think probably posted on alt.anagrams):

> PP: satisfy downcast grumble
> PP: forcible gymnast sawdust
> PP: declassify strung wombat

> Not bad, but the only one I really like is
> the first one, and that I didn't find since I
> wanted to avoid repeats of "umbl" . The last
> two make for some weird images, though --- perhaps:

> a heavy gymnast with sandpaper shoes, on the balance beam; and

> make public a secret Australian musical instrument that
> raises the digeridoo harmonics to new hypnotic levels,
> which can induce a "return to the womb" trance.
> (I'm sure Mickey Hart can hartly wait).

> DRD

Good find, David..!