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Hajo
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:24 pm    Post subject: Automated nonsense poems [quote]

More than 15 years ago, I found the idea of automated nonsense poems in a sci-fi novel. I had written a program to create such poems, but later, when I moved to a different computer system, I lost the program.

Now finally, after so many years, I've managed to write it again for my current computer. Find below one of the poems, I've titled it:

Strangeness 20

The heart is sad
but the master is silent
or no ghost is blind
or all ghosts are frozen
and every female is hot
and no heaven is deep

Every heart is hot
but all minds are eternal
or all heavens are deep
but all heavens are frozen
and not all hearts are deep

All females are blind
or not the animal is lonely
and every ghost is eternal
and not all ghosts are frozen
and every male is hot

Every heaven is light
and the ghost is light
but not all females are lonely
or the animal is silent
but not all masters are eternal

All masters are light
and every soul is lonely
but not the male is lonely
but no heaven is deep
and not every male is hot
and no soul is blind
but not every male is hot

The heart is eternal
and not all females are light
but no female is eternal
and all males are light
and the master is lonely

No soul is silent
and the heart is sad
and no master is lonely
but not no heart is blind
and no master is sad
but not every heart is lonely

The heaven is light
and every ghost is lonely
and every mind is lonely
but not all females are frozen
or not the master is sad
but not every male is silent
but the ghost is light

All females are silent
and not no male is silent
but not no mind is hot
and every plant is hot
or every mind is hot
or all masters are light
but no female is blind
and all masters are frozen

No heart is lonely
but every heart is frozen
or not every master is blind
or every mind is lonely

Every plant is eternal
and not the animal is lonely
and the master is silent
or every ghost is hot

The heart is light
but all masters are eternal
but not all masters are frozen
or every female is frozen
and all animals are sad
or all plants are light
but all plants are eternal

Every master is blind
but the plant is eternal
but not every ghost is frozen
and no heart is hot

Every soul is sad
and no plant is eternal
and not the male is sad
and not the heart is light

All heavens are silent
but not the heaven is light
or all minds are lonely
but not all plants are lonely

Every ghost is lonely
or all souls are eternal
and not all souls are lonely
and not the soul is sad
but every heaven is eternal
or every heaven is frozen
but the female is blind

No master is hot
but every animal is eternal
or the female is frozen
but every ghost is sad
or all males are frozen

Every female is eternal
and the plant is lonely
or all masters are light
but no heaven is eternal
but the master is sad

No plant is blind
and not all heavens are frozen
but not no soul is eternal
but no plant is sad
or no plant is light
or no plant is silent
or the soul is sad
and every master is frozen
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Hajo
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:26 pm    Post subject: [quote]

Another one from a different set of words.

Starfire 6

The heart is blazing
but the fire is dumb
or no path is blind
or all paths are wide
and every star is hot
and no pain is deep

Every heart is hot
but all suns are eternal
or all pains are deep
but all pains are wide
and not all hearts are deep

All stars are blind
or not the heaven is lonely
and every path is eternal
and not all paths are wide
and every color is hot

Every pain is light
and the path is light
but not all stars are lonely
or the heaven is dumb
but not all fires are eternal

All fires are light
and every sound is lonely
but not the color is lonely
but no pain is deep
and not every color is hot
and no sound is blind
but not every color is hot

The heart is eternal
and not all stars are light
but no star is eternal
and all colors are light
and the fire is lonely
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Verious
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 4:24 pm    Post subject: [quote]

Several of the lines and words seem very repetitive, is this due to a small dictionary file or the way the application is designed?
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Hajo
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:51 am    Post subject: [quote]

Both, I assume. It's purely random, so lines can repeat at any time. The dictionaries for both poems contain around 20 words.
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Mandrake
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:44 pm    Post subject: [quote]

check this out:
http://faeriering.rpgdx.net/ce.zip
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