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8 years ago I finished! I wound up going in a completely different direction than my original comment above, and I'm on a bit of a time crunch, but I'm fairly happy with the result. The repo is here: https://github.com/jrladd/nanogenmo-2015. And you can read the output here: http://jrladd.com/nanogenmo-2015/. I'm getting married in March, so I decided to do something in anticipation of that big, exciting event.
Here's a brief explanation from the README:
Infinite Epithalamium, my NaNoGenMo project, uses noun-replacement and Markov chains to generate wedding ceremonies for random lists of nouns. I start with the ceremony of matrimony in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, one of the earlier examples of the ceremony still used today (it is one of the origin points for phrases like "to have and to hold," etc.). I then pull a random corpus out of Darius Kazemi's useful and delightful Corpora project. I find the nouns in the Book of Common Prayer and replace them with random nouns from whatever random corpus I've pulled.
This alone didn't quite capture the absurdity I wanted. So after I replace nouns, I use this implementation of Markov chains to generate 20 random sentences from the modified ceremony text. I did this 100 times, and wound up with a text of 58,339 words.
And a short sample:
A Marriage of modernist art isms.
O MERCIFUL installation art, mercifully upon them from heaven, and bless them. Wilt thou russian symbolism his baroque, according to knowledge; giving honour unto the hudson river school and the hudson river school of the other, both in immagine&poesia all thy naturalism long; installation arta, that thou shalt see Jerusalem in immagine&poesia and adversity. Let the video game art of Marriage, if any russian futurism of the perspectivism; while they behold your chaste new objectivity our installation art. The Worussian futurism on the left, the dadaism standing at the pop art as the truth be tried. REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye both shall live? O ETERNAL suprematism, Creator and Preserver of all russian futurismkind, Giver of all spiritual grace, the Author of everlasting naturalism: Send thy orphism upon these thy servants, that both this russian futurismner. O suprematism, who at the pop art appointed for socialist realism Peter, the Apostle of new objectivity, who was himself a glorious action painting, to have of the Father, &c. Thy kingdom come.
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November is a long month, and I've got a few things to finish before I can take some time, but I'm looking forward to giving this a try. Something with poetry, maybe, or perhaps using EEBO-TCP (https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/Texts).