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  2. Strachey love letter algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The algorithm has the following structure: Print two words taken from a list of salutations; Do the following 5 times: Choose one of two sentence structures depending on a random value Rand; Fill the sentence structure from lists of adjectives, adverbs, substantives, and verbs. Print the letter's closing [9]

  3. Possible Worlds (Porter collection) - Wikipedia

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    Writing in Westerly Lawrence Bourke noted: "Possible Worlds which carries the Poetry Book Society Recommendation is a delight. As with other Porter books the reading of anyone poem gains by reading it alongside others, where recurrent ideas, images and key words illuminate, refer to and sometimes contradict each other, and the difficulties if not entirely massaged away, smooth out enough to ...

  4. Postmodernism Generator - Wikipedia

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    The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces "close imitations" of postmodernist writing. It was written in 1996 by Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars. [1] A free version is also hosted online.

  5. Lists of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    The 32-year-old plasterer was shot and killed by excise officer Francis Smith, who mistook him for the Hammersmith ghost due to his white uniform. Smith was later sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to one year's imprisonment with hard labor, and he received a full pardon later in the year. [22] [131] Victims of the London Beer Flood

  6. The Country Husband - Wikipedia

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    Literary critic Jonathan Yardley offers this praise: "The Country Husband' is close to a perfect short story. In the brief space of perhaps 10,000 words Cheever creates characters whom we see in full; he portrays the exterior and interior lives of Francis Weed with astonishing complexity and subtlety; he gets the suburban ambiance exactly right; he depicts with heartbreaking accuracy the ...

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  8. Sonnet 76 - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary's definition of weed is "an article of apparel; a garment", and is consistent with the theme of mending, re-using, etc. ("all my best is dressing old words new"). [ 8 ] The "noted weed" of line 6 and the images of lines 7 and 8 seems to be echoed in a poem by Ben Jonson , published in the first pages of the First ...

  9. Thimbleweed Park - Wikipedia

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    The game is set in 1987. FBI agents Angela Ray and Antonio Reyes arrive at the town of Thimbleweed Park to investigate a murder. Their investigation leads them to several persons of interest: Chuck Edmund, the recently deceased owner of the PillowTronics robotics company; Ransome the Clown, cursed to wear his makeup forever after going too far in his insulting performances; Delores Edmund ...