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> From: George Simmers <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Collaborative Verses
> Date: 21 June 1998 11:54
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> I disagree with Gerald England when he says there aren't many examples
> of collaborative work where the joins aren't obvious to the reader.
You are obviously better read in these things than I.
>
> David Kennedy also asked about text-randomising software. I don't know
> any commercial products that do this, but both Linda crespi and I have
> produced our own versions of this kind of thing. Look in the Snakeskin
> archive, and you'll find Linda's haiku-writing programs, and also her
> program for translating four lines of catullus in a near-infinite
> variety of ways. The code for this is Javascript, and you can easily see
> it by selecting View Code from the Netscape menu, or by saving the file
> and looking at it in an HTML editor.
There is a very good text-randomizing program called
Babble!
Babble! takes samples of text from various sources,
analyzes them for style and content, mixes them
together in varying proportions,
and then...well...babbles.
The copy I have is version 2 which runs under DOS
There may well be an upgraded version available now
The program is a trademark of Korenthal Associates Inc.
I originally got the Shareware version about 1991
loved what it did and got the registered version.
You might search shareware sites for the latest version.
The zipped-up shareware version may be small
enough to email as an attachment
to anyone who wants to look at it.
I'll have to find it first though.
yours
Gerald England
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