Last Year in Marienbad
L’année dernièr à Marienbad. Computer generation of text.
Abstract
Computer generation of text. Can it make any sense? Maybe. Maybe not. If sense is not the prime interest then it can fit its context quite well, seeming to make sense. Last Year in Marienbad is a Surrealist stream of consciousness, and the computer does it well. Religious babble does not have to make sense because it is in incomprehendable archaized language that sounds like God, and so can be seen as God speaking in mysterious ways. Most religious people accept what they read in their bibles as profound, though they cannot understand it. Literary criticism is someone’s opinion, and does not have to make sense to others, but does in bits. Literary essays are just bits of opinion strung together on a chain with little or no logic necessary. A common theme and the bits making individual sense of a kind seems to make sense in the whole. A computer can do that quite well. Check out Marienbad, our never ending story.
Text Generation
Contents
© Dr M D Magee Contents Updated: Thursday, 5 February 2009
- Transgressing the Boundaries This page.
- The Great Critic Speaks This page.
- Aphorism Machine This page.
- Marienbad Abstracts of all the pages here
- The Oracles of Jashub
- Daily Literary Criticism
- George Polti Plot Generator
- Last Year In Marienbad Never ending story. Keep clicking it to find out what happens year after year at Marienbad!
- Marienbad Muser: Plot generator Like the previous two mixed! More Polti than Marienbad
- Self generating Literary Criticism
- Bishop Ecclesiasticus Christian-like babble
- FIBA (Frederick Ignatius Baines Archive) More of the Holy Bibble
- UK Lottery An Ajax application
- Chivalry in the Rosy Cross Poor Markov Chain attempt
- Who Wrote The Two Noble Kinsmen? Stylometry—Analysing Writing Styles
- “GOD IS DEAD KILLED BY SCIENCE” How long would it take to generate this string by picking random letters? Not long with selection!
- Impeach the war criminals, Bush and Blair—draft letter for you to send
Abstract
Computer generation of text. Can it make any sense? Maybe. Maybe not. If sense is not the prime interest then it can fit its context quite well, seeming to make sense. Last Year in Marienbad is a Surrealist stream of consciousness, and the computer does it well. Religious babble does not have to make sense because it is in incomprehendable archaized language that sounds like God, and so can be seen as God speaking in mysterious ways. Most religious people accept what they read in their bibles as profound, though they cannot understand it. Literary criticism is someone’s opinion, and does not have to make sense to others, but does in bits. Literary essays are just bits of opinion strung together on a chain with little or no logic necessary. A common theme and the bits making individual sense of a kind seems to make sense in the whole. A computer can do that quite well. Check out Marienbad, our never ending story.
