Friday, December 25, 2015

Simulating Joyce's prose

joycean word-processor
helps you write more like joyce


episode styles
exercise: rewrite episode A in style B

obscure word lists
slang


patterns of interior monologue vs dialogue&c
classes of internal thought (memory, sensation, fantasy)


generate path markers
pick a character, generate a path, generate a monolog
intersect multiple simultaneous paths (ch10)



motifs: figures of speech
eg collect 'fire' sayings and outline a fire-themed episode


speech patterns
extrapolate similar phrases based on sample from Ulysses



train a neural net on each set of authors in oxen [cf]


Matt Schneider suggests ELIZA as a model for Ithaca's q&a, Maybe a (no-graphics-style) text adventure that delivers canned text if you guess the right question?





a simple algorithm could use color to display how cliched each word-combination is, as you read or write.








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