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[Ben] Once in a while, I actually glance at the content of the spam that I get, just to stay current with what the idiots are doing. Since these days, they tend to throw in a bunch of random verbiage to confuse spam filters (not that this affects Spamassassin :), I'm sometimes rewarded with abstract poetry like this:
near-by novel-crazed paper carrier olive gnat parcel-divine n-dimensional one-piece patchouli oil Middle west oil-fired paper stainer one-pipe mummy brown murmur diphthong pauper-fed oyster agaric opossum tree mora hair mighty-spirited passenger car oak blight oblique-angled orange orchard passage-free oyster fork oxyhydrogen blowpipe Paleo-american night-tripping night raven os magnum moon-crowned pale-looking paper birch opening bit Parma red out-group moon-born out-of-school office-seeking ninety-ninth orange-hued needle fir nimble will pea flower out-of-towner oil gland one-lunged needle spar passion-wasted oil gauge middle-shot wheel New years eve nose pipe moose elm Michaelmas sitting page gauge mui-tsai mint camphor Pan-celticism opium-smoking pain-fearing pea blight out-of-turn Middle high german night parrot neural axis never-lasting mis-con one-word New thoughtist Mid-april morning campion paper-whiteness paving roller paddle shaft pantechnicon van passage grave Neo-punic mist-blotted obturator fascia money-mad multiple-toothed oat-crushing neat-fingered object matter naked-flowered
Isn't that lovely? Absent the spam content (a link), it could actually be seen as somebody's attempt at real abstract poetry. Hell, I've seen lots worse done on purpose. :)
[clarjon1] Yeah, i get that too...
Here's one my filter caught (missing just the pic that was to cover up the text, i guess)
departed knowd it; and the departed done what was right by her, as not a little shabby already. I wanted to be cutting at those trees exercises on the lawn behind the house, I saw her face pass from When I come to any town, he pursued, I found the inn, and waited pecuniary embarrassments, is, with the generality of people, at a Yes. said Mr. Peggotty, with a hopeful smile. No one cant dishonest act; and has used it, ever since, to torture and It is not my intention, he continued reading on, to enter on The early stars began to shine while we were lingering on, and better heart. exclaimed the girl, with most forlorn regret; for by snatches as we were employed. When I left, at nine oclock, she But, much too soon, we heard the others laughing and talking, and When we were nearly come to the last round of the punch, I For a time - at all events until my book should be completed, which other dog but Jip; because he wouldnt have known me before I was a supreme satisfaction, of a personal and professional nature, in Theres a long statement in the papers, sir, about a murder, wonderful housekeeper. Accordingly, she polished the tablets, venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a There was a beggar in the street, when I went down; and as I turned will ever bear in mind, that he had infinitely better put his fist
I wonder if it's a part of someone's abstract poetry?
[Jason] I suspect it's generated by Markov chains (or something similar) from some large corpus like, e.g., project Gutenburg texts.
[Ben] Hmmm, possible.
ben@Fenrir:~$ gzip -dc The\ Bible,\ King\ James\ Authorized\ Version.gz | dadadodo - For me bright brass and some Elias; talking or the recorder, land shall abide at all works of Leah was sent me, all the children of thieves, And with me. Hear (not a this is he Send thee between her suburbs and in Gezer; but godliness). And the silver the counsellors have reproached, and when thou, hast thou although fell out of Israel, abiding; in the people are weak is sick of the people shall say, unto Amos, hear the length thereof, he pressed him. And into singing women, go they have born.
James Joyce's "Ulysses", of course, looks completely unaffected by this process.
[clarjon1] By the way, Ben, have you been to Canada recently? If so, I think you may have dropped a pair of sunglasses by my place...
[Rick] Just for the heck of it, I fed that through Danny O'Brien's found-haiku (yeah, senryu) Perl script. Here are some of the better works of literature that result:
gauge middle-shot wheelNew years eve nose pipe moose elmMichaelmas sittingpaper-whitenesspaving roller paddle shaftpantechnicon van
Cheers, Rick ("whose colourless green ideas sleep furiously") Moen