#cut-ups

“Wrought distinctly only tapping, some angels door. Madam Nameless-- vainly morrow;-- Presently rustling napping evermore. Forgiveness Lenore-- heart grew door;-- sought nothing Thrilled ‘Tis midnight silken, rare wished stood beating repeating Lenore---” Original Poem: “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. Cut-Up by @silence-singer.

Here is my first cut-up, made from the words of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” It is honestly quite fascinating how though the words are chosen at random they make sense in their own way.

Since skal already has dibs on using the online generator, I made my own python program to create cut-ups. My source material is a txt file of Alice In Wonderland obtained from the Gutenberg corpus. The program reads words from the file and decides randomly how long to make the output string (capped at a reasonable amount of words), then randomly chooses words from the source file to add to the output string. Very simple.

The reason I like using python is because I can control the random seeding. What I like to do is use my statement of intent as the seed with a single random number added to it, in this case multiplied by 23, thereby adding some element of influence to it while keeping the results at the universe’s whim. The code itself is only like 13 lines.

Anyway, onto the good bit. Here’s my day 1 results. My intent was to obtain true and accurate prophecies of the future. When the punctuation came out as grammatically correct, I kept it, but single unpaired quotes and things were cleaned up. Overall I kept any intentional-looking formatting but edited it to look more correct.

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115 maximum words and it gives me something so short? Noteworthy, at least.

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This somehow sounds like an indignant monologue someone’s giving, maybe a conversation.

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Another short one! Alright, I have room for one more long one, then.

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Well, that’s almost coherent! It seems to favor short passages over long ones despite the generous limits I set.

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