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Anyone use or written a program to write

• limericks
  platitudes (think I did one of those)
  sutra
  parables
  poetry

This sort of thing:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annal ... nical-muse

Nope, but back in college I wrote an app that generated crossword puzzles utilizing curses.

Got an 'A'

If you don't know about them already, there are Dada bots and poetry bots and so on all over Twitter and Mastodon.

AI and ML art (including poetry) is red-hot at the moment.

Check out the retweets by @botwikidotorg and also have a look out for Janelle Shane, aiweirdness.com

Also investigate GPT2

That article that doesn't even mention the seminal Racter program and "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed", from the early 1980s. Not to mention Terry Winograd's work.

No love for clerihews Lobster?

Hello all.

French Surrealists invented a writing game called "cadavres exquis" ("exquisite
corpses") about 95 years ago. ( To add to 6502coder's criticism ! )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse

A man named Gleyze is trying to revive the practice at
http://jf.gleyze.free.fr/ExquisesRequetes.html
collating fragments of text through Google.

You get things like: "The whale decided to go back to sea."
( Logical thing to do, I suppose, if you're a whale! )

I didn't do research on the English side, but from the article on fr.wikipedia, I learned
that in 1931 G.K. Chesterton et al. wrote a detective novel called "The Floating Admiral"
using the principle.

So there has to be something in Will's language.
( You know William S., don't you? )

Tah-dah.

Hi Musher !

So there has to be something in Will's language.
( You know William S., don't you? Laughing )

Are you alluding to William S. Burroughs?
Bad Boy William S. Burroughs used similar Techniques (as the Dadaists did )to explore "alternative" Realities via Cut-Up Methods just before Computers became common Household Articles .

"Language is a Virus from Outer Space .
The Cut-Up Machine mixes up the words you enter in a form, a la William S. Burroughs and the Dadaists. This creates new and often surprising juxtapositions of words that can inspire creativity."

http://www.languageisavirus.com/cutupmachine.php

No! William Shakespeare!
The language of Shakespeare being English.

William S. Burroughs seems to be in the same league as the French Surrealists.

No! William Shakespeare !

Shakespeare........ Top League !