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  2. 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.

  3. Rasul Mir - Wikipedia

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    Rasul Mir (Kashmiri: رَسوٗل میٖر) also known as Rasul Mir Shahabadi, was a Kashmiri romantic poet born in Doru Shahabad.He is often referred to as imām-e-ishqiya shairi' (The epitome of romantic poetry) for his literary contribution to Kashmiri romanticism.

  4. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    Approximate X-bar representation of Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.See phrase structure rules.. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical.

  5. The Library of Babel (website) - Wikipedia

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    The algorithm Basile created generates a 'book' by iterating every permutation of 29 characters: the 26 English letters, space, comma, and period. [8] Each book is marked by a coordinate, corresponding to its place on the hexagonal library (hexagon name, wall number, shelf number, and book name) so that every book can be found at the same place every time.

  6. Long poem - Wikipedia

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    Though the definition of a long poem is vague and broad, the genre includes some of the most important poetry ever written. With more than 220,000 (100,000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world. [ 1 ]

  7. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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    The most recent edition, published in 2005, provides detailed guidance for sentence spacing. Its general guidance indicates that, "The standard for proportional fonts has always been the same: use only one space between the period and the start of the next sentence" and "now that the standards of desktop publishing predominate, the use of only ...

  8. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Believed to be the only surviving original work by the Song dynasty scholar; written on the back of a sheet of paper used for woodblock printing. Previously owned by Xiang Yuanbian (1525–1590). Zeng Gong: c. 1080: Wang Zhongjun: May 2016 [7] [8] $38.1 $38.1 Codex Sassoon 1053

  9. Longest English sentence - Wikipedia

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    (1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words. [6] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.