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Love is ... #92

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spc476 opened this issue Nov 8, 2017 · 1 comment

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spc476 commented Nov 8, 2017

An idea I stole from Douglas Hofstadter from his book Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern wherein:

Set our corpus to a single word, “love.”
For each word in our corpus, replace said word with its definition.
If we haven't reached 50,000 words, repeat step 2.

That's pretty much it. I spent more time finding and parsing an online dictionary than I did on the code to implement the idea, and I kind of overshot by 120,000 words (for a total of 170,007 word).

Anyway, Love is ...

Also, my code and references.

Written using Lua.

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greg-kennedy commented Nov 10, 2017

Reminds me of this one from 2015: dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015#66

This seems to be the "purest" form of it though, as it starts from a single word instead of a sentence : )

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