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NaNoGenMo / 2019

National Novel Generation Month, 2019 edition.
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Dolphin's Track, a #NNNGM #116

Open spikelynch opened 4 years ago

spikelynch commented 4 years ago

A concrete poem based on Moby-Dick:

curl -s http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-0.txt | perl -ane 'for (@F) {/e/ && print " "x(40-$-[0]).$_ . "\n"}'

Excerpt:

                                abundance
                                    large
                                    whales,
                                      there
                                       being
                                     more
                                    those
                                   southern
                                       seas,
                                   hundred
                                      one;
                                       we
                                     have
                                      the
                                    Cowley’s
                                   Voyage
                                      the
                                    Globe,
                                      the
                                      breath
                                      the
                                    whale
                                      frequently
                                     attended
                            insupportable
                                      smell,
                                  disorder
                                      the
                                      America_.
                                    chosen
                                      special
                                     note,
                                       We
                                      the
                                   charge,
                                      the
                                       petticoat.
                                     have
                                       we
                                       seven-fold
                                       fence
                                   stuffed
                                     armed
                                    whale.”
hugovk commented 4 years ago

Please could you also post a full version?

spikelynch commented 4 years ago

Full version as a gist, including a shell script which generates it

https://gist.github.com/spikelynch/6ffea94260c2e538560f276d36811f4d