https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1695 Weak anticipation is involved (possibly in more than a way) in texts obeying genre-bound poetic conventions, in the generation of such texts, in their receptions, and possibly in events related in such texts, the events having been conceived not necessarily in a vein of realistic verisimilarity. This paper starts with a situation arising in the reception triggered by two ads contiguously rotating on a signboard ; then turns to retracing a schema of how to conceptualize the generation of a text by Rosenzweig, which achieves mock-explanation by ascribing foreknowledge to a character. That literary text combines both mock-etymology and narrative mock-explanation (a humourous aetiological tale), in the form of a learned treatise full of intertextual references to a genre-specific literary canon. An AI formal analysis is sketched for part of its opening page. Full text issues Volume 12 Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence fr Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:45:09 +0200 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:45:25 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1695 0