NaPoGenMo / NaPoGenMo2016

National Poetry Generation Month 2016
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Gutendelight, a poem #4

Open hugovk opened 8 years ago

hugovk commented 8 years ago

Going to hack something together from a Twitter bot.

hugovk commented 8 years ago
  1. November 2014: For NaNoGenMo write gutengrep, a poetry and story generator using Project Gutenberg (source).
  2. February 2015: Using gutengrep, combine hip-hop lyrics with classic literature into Twitter bot @gutendelight (source).
  3. April 2015: For @kaikkisanat (the Finnish @everyword) write a utility to make it easier to find its most popular tweets from the previous month (source).
  4. Apply (3) to (2) to generate a poem of hip hop mixed with classic literature in English, German and Welsh!
hugovk commented 8 years ago

Gutendelight, a poem

I

And then you look at your plate and your chicken's slowly rotting We are to have you for a week's yachting.

For the young lady with nice fine thighs These provisions are often detailed and complicated and hence are difficult to summarize.

Damn if I say it you can slap me right here "Thank you; give it me," cried the musketeer.

Like Fred Flintstone, driving around with bald feet Across the furthest corner was stretched a ragged sheet.

Rest a little while so ya don't get weak What is the signification of this new freak?

II

Just let me quit my boyfriend called Superman They AREN'T in fact, and so they're supermen.

Cause all I'm here to do is just wiggle your behind Then Sir Fergus told her how he was almost out of his mind.

Food was flying everywhere [FN#297] In text "Najas" = a pear.

I can't walk through the park cause it's crazy after dark Is't not enough to clatter with thy jaws, But thou must bark?

(And then he) Move right up, (And then he) Kiss your lips Is the greatest possible ellipse.

III

We're like Machine Gun Kelly and Bonnie and Clyde Well, then, pull ahead, and let's get the whale alongside.

But I can bust you out with my super sperm APPROVE, prove, confirm.

We got golden voices and hearts of steel perchance swift cure our hearts shall heal.

I tried to get away but I couldn't get far "She is still at the Conservatoire?"

Elvis was a hero to most There hast thou the sacred theme, Therein the inveterate spur, Of the Innermost.

IV

Lookin' for the cook Tis a useful crook!

A time to live and a time to die Wenn haben unsere Vorfahren Kaffee getrunken, die doch auch ihre Freude hatten, und herzlicher als wir.

Just like my man captain sky Ond yr oedd yn bryd troi i'r ty.

To all the young ladies, this is what it be See the Chronicle of John Villani, (l. xi.

Cause I'ma get a fly girl, gonna get some spank and drive off in a def OJ Great was the astonishment when one of the donkeys began to bray.

V

(And then he) Hold on tight so I never slip "I wasn't making fun of you," protested Tip.

A name appears in your mind (5) They all inquire: "To what punishment is this knight to be consigned?

To the hip hip hop and you don't stop exclaimed that admirable slop.

They asked me my name The bull has the game.

At bringin' back any help The name Sargasso comes from the Spanish word "sargazzo" which signifies kelp.

MichaelPaulukonis commented 8 years ago

That works quite well.

I spent a night fighting with (the few?) node wordnik libraries -- there seemed to be fundamental issues that I could fix in some cases, but I was still hampered by lack of documentation (the main lib worked under the dual assumptions that 1) the user was quite familiar with the wordnik API and 2) the user was the author).

So I switched to banging on somebody else's code that I had banged on previously.