This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important.
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| — | Gary Provost (via mycrofts) |
Impersonator || Janet Zweig
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This is an interactive computer piece at the Santa Fe Community College Instructional Technology Center that invents and writes a new line of text and displays it on a mechanical “flip-disk” sign (like ones in train stations) every time someone enters the building through the main doorway, activated by a contact in the door. The computer that runs the sign contains a text-generating program with grammar rules and a lexicon programmed by the artist. The programming strategy was to use a large number of syntactical structures as templates, and, for each sentence, choose from them randomly and then choose every word in the template randomly from a large lexicon. This provides sentences that are coherent, often funny, and never the same. Every sentence is a new one, written by the computer. Here are some of the sentences it wrote during its first few days:
YOU WILL AESTHETICALLY EMBRACE THIS PAGAN ODDITY.
WAS OUR SLEEP NOURISHED BY DELUSION OR DESPAIR?
YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE SUPERMARKET OF TOLERANCE.
HYSTERIA, HONEY, IS SO GENUINELY TRANSPARENT.
I REFUSE TO BE ALIVE IN SPITE OF YOUR PATIENCE.
FABULOUS POETS WILL SLEEP WITH YOU IN THE FACTORIES.
IT’S LIKE A FETISH DETONATED BY A TOPLESS COMMENTATOR.
WELCOME ABOARD THE TRANSIENT VIRUS OF MARRIAGE.
PLEASE GIVE NORBERT WEINER SOME NAUGHTY SCHNAUZERS.
I’M IN HERE. I’M ALIVE. TRUST ME.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem (8-Bit Version)
I have literally been listening to this for the past 30 minutes.
this is the best thing to read megaman fanfics to
