| Author | Message | ||
     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
http://iwl.me/ Apparently I write like Steven King. Or maybe Cory Doctorow (whoever he is). | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
I think there's something wrong with that website. When I pasted in some of my prose, it just said "shit". "I write like shit." That can't be right, can it? I'll go back and try again when they've fixed it. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
Seriously, I just typed in a passage from Stephen King and it said "I write like H P Lovecraft". Accuracy invalidated at a stroke, methinks. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Methinks thou art taking it too seriously. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.158 |
I just pasted in your second entry here, Gary - you too write like Cory Doctorow. But your third entry said you write like Lovecraft. I just put in the first line of Genesis, 1:1. Who knew the Old Testament was written in the style of Dan Brown? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
Doesn't "art" mean "are"? "Art" is slang for "aren't". As if you, Weber, art alf a plonker.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
So I just put a lengthy passage from the one of the most idiosyncratic stylists in the world today and . . . it doesn't even recognise him. Martin Amis apparently writes like Cory Doctorow. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.44.120 |
Apparently I write like Dan Brown.  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Depends which section I put in, I've been Stephen King 3 times, Cory Doctorow once and David Foster Wallace once. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
I think it needs a little work . . . nice try, professor, but your grant will not be renewed this forthcoming year. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Well, I'm not sure whether to be flattered or not. I pasted in a piece of flash fiction I did a while ago, and it came out that I write like Margaret Atwood!  | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.44.120 |
Now I'm James Joyce. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
Dan Brown and James Joyce both break rules of composition, but only one of them knowingly. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Now I'm either Lewis Carroll or jack London... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.228.12 |
I write like nobody else. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
I write like most weekends and like some weekend evenings. I write like mostly longhand. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
This is fun! Just pasted in a piece of feedback I gave to a student on their work, and apparently Cory Doctorow writes like that too!  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
Folks, put this in it: "West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low gambrel roofs." | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Same names keep appearing. I think the prof needs to add a few author profiles to his database. Of course, just because an author's name is in the database doesn't mean it can be accurately detected. I just read that Margaret Atwood added some of her own text to the site and discovered she wrote like Stephen King. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
So King writes like Lovecraft and Lovecraft like King. There's a kind of truth there, of course, but the machine has, to put it plainly, got it all arse about tit. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.228.12 |
King writes like Lovecraft?! Come on. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
I just shoved some text of Ramsey's in and he apparently writes like Lovecraft. No surprise there, but JLP allegedly writes like... Margaret Mitchell. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
Well, Kate, if he has that curry this evening, he'll be gone with the wind. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
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| John (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
I call bollocks on the whole thing. I've tried three different fragments from my short stories and received three different names - from Dan Brown, to Stephen King, to James Joyce. I might keep trying to see if I can collect them all. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
I'm apparently Mark Twain, which is a bit surprising. The story I shoved in had the F-word in it and everything! | ||
| John (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
I just wrote a paragraph of bad erotic fiction and ran it through - Ian Fleming, apparently. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.208.112.244 |
Apparently I'm JK Rowling. Seriously. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.129.71 |
I got Lovecraft. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.171.253.12 |
I was Chuck Pahalniuk. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
So far I write like P.G. Wodehouse (!!), Cory Doctorow, David Foster Wallace and H.G. Wells. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.44.28 |
Well, apparently Fritz Leiber and Angela Carter also write like James Joyce, so I'm in good company (I'm doing my best to forget the Dan Brown comparison). | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.244.108 |
"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." = Rudyard Kipling "It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out." = Ursula K. LeGuin "Your mother sucks c*cks in Hell, Karras, you faithless slime." = James Joyce | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.107.152 |
I think this is a marketing ploy. I'm not Cory Doctorow, Goddammit! | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Interesting. Poe and de Sade are also Lovecraft. But in "The Tell-Tale Heart" Poe suddenly becomes Vladimir Nabokov. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.249.139 |
Sarah Palin writes like David Foster Wallace. But Barack Obama writes like - George Orwell?! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.249.139 |
And did anyone know that Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is in the style of Mark Twain?... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.249.139 |
When you say "fuck" seven times in a row, you're William Gibson. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
wibble wibble wibble wibble wibble is James Joyce. I'm sorry I never made it to that bit in Ulysses now. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Apparently Cory Doctorow is: "a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing." Hmmm... | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
By gum, you can learn to be a better writer too! It says so! I'm in the midst of transcribing my first drafts for the forthcoming PS definitive edition of The Inhabitant of the Lake, and so I pasted this in from one. It should be obvious who I'm writing like here, should it not? Nothing more need be noted concerning the curious couple in the house bordering the river for a lengthy time after this. In late 1806 a son was born in that darkly brooding building to the couple from the witchcraft-haunted region, and it is considered by some who have come into contact with the Wentworth document that this was the actual beginning of a series of events to reach so devastating a climax in 1931. The child, who was named Simon by his science-seeking father, was born on a day in November, of lashing rain and skies ripped open by lightning. The people living near Riverside Alley used to say that a throaty and muffled rumbling had seemed to come from below the ground rather than from the throbbing sky; a few would even insist querulously that the lightning, often striking near the river, had once struck, in the form of a scintillating pillar of energy, directly through the roof of the Peabody homestead, even though no marks of such a phenomenon could afterwards to be found. The son was, at any rate, born of strange parents, and no such superstitious accounting for his curious inclinations in later life need be sought. It was in 1822, when Simon Peabody would have been seventeen or eighteen years of age, that his rumoured instruction by his father commenced. Definitely passers-by would see faint gleams of light through the shutters which nearly always now closed over the windows, and frequently muttered discussions or arguments between father and son might be overheard. Once or twice these low-voiced conclaves took on a faintly ritualistic flavour, and those hearing the words would experience a vague sense of unease. A few passers would become sufficiently curious to peer through a crack in the shutter, upon which they might see the younger Peabody poring over some large and ancient tome, or assisting at some unknown and sinister-looking apparatus. It seemed obvious that the boy was passing through a period of initiation or instruction in some branch of knowledge, of a definitely outré kind, if one were to judge from reports. This period, it appears, continued well into the late months of 1823, and at its latter end a change began to be noted by those residing near the antique building on Riverside Alley. For one thing, whereas before only the woman of the household had been seen to leave the house, a series of nocturnal journeys now commenced. They were made by father and son with what seemed an extreme degree of caution, and the usual destination was thought to lie near the river. At one time the two were followed by a puzzled passer-by, who returned to report that they had been engaged in some sort of surveyal of the ancient, moss-grown river bridge. They had even clambered down the bank to balance precariously above the swirling ebon waters, and at one time the father, examining one of the supports by the light of a lantern, let out a cry of what sounded like realisation. His son seemed equally surprised when he joined the seeker, and both disappeared under the bridge. The watcher could not view proceedings without revealing himself, and he made his way home with a turbulent mind. Terrible stuff, but by gum, was I surprised to be told whose prose it resembled. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
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| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
And this, apparently, is in the style of William Shakespeare!: Dear Sir/Ma, Re:Late Sgt. James L.Montgomery of Fifteen Million United State Dollars only(Us$15,000,000.00) I am Barrister Barr Martins Burkit (Esq.) the Personal Attorney of Late Sgt. James L.Montgomery ,a citizen of your Country and an American soldier that served in the military with the Us army's 3rd infantry division before he retired and dead.My Client deposited Fifteen Million United State Dollars only(Us$15M) Bank in Europe hoping to claim it after his service in the Army.I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of the extended relatives of my client which proved unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts to reach his family,hence I contacted you.I have contacted you on trust to assist me in claiming the fund he left behind by my client valued Fifteen Million United States Dollars($15,000,000.00).The officials of his Bank have issued to me a notice/ultimatum to provide the next of kin of my client for the claim of his fund within the next ten official working days. Since l have been unsuccessful in locating his relatives over some time now,I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of his fund worth Fifteen Million United States Dollars($15,000,000.00) can be paid you as his next of kin for our mutual benefit. His Source of money: Foreign currency worth nearly Two Hundred Million United State Dollars($200M) was found in a Baghdad neighbourhood, during a rescue operation in April, 2003 and some part of this money was shared among Late Sgt. James L. and his other Armys before informing others about it.You will find the story of this money on the web address below; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm I can also provide you with some pictures and copy of his Identications. The sharing percentage is as follow if only you will be faithful and honest to assist me,35% for your assistance as next of kin,60% to me and remaining 5% should be for expenses or tax as your government may require. All necessary legal documents that will back up your claim of this money will be secured in your name with the personal and private information of my late client in line with the stipulations of the law. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee you that this business will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.Further more,Kindly furnish me with your following details. {A. YOUR FULL NAME. {B. YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS {C}. YOUR TELEPHONE/ MOBILE PHONE NUMBER As soon as I receive your details, I will write an application to the Bank for immediate claim. Please get in touch with me by EMAIL and CALL me on my direct phone number 234 806 833 5461 to enable us discuss further steps to follow in the actualization of this Objective. I awaits your urgent response. Best Regards, Barr Barr Martins Burkit(Esq) Address:17,Convention Road,Apapa Lagos Nigeria Direct Phone Numbers:+234 806 833 5461} } | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
>>>Barr Barr Martins Burkit(Esq) Well, he's certainly a Bard. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.242 |
forthcoming PS definitive edition of The Inhabitant of the Lake Do you know when this is going to be available, Ramsey? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Ramsey, that passage is apparently meant to resemble Derleth's pastiches of Lovecraft (see, for example, the massive and rather splendid opening sentence of 'The Survivor'). Who did the website think it was like – Guy N. Smith? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
James Joyce when I copied it in | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
Margaret Atwood! Glad it's someone I admire... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I translated that long bit of text from ramsey's post into Maltese (Google translater - I'm not that clever) and apparently it's Chuck palahniuk now. Xejn aktar bżonn jiġi osservat li jikkonċernaw il-koppja kurjużi fil-binja li jmissu mal-xmara għal żmien twil wara dan. Tard fl-1806 tifel twieled fl-imsemmi bini darkly brooding lill-koppja mir-reġjun maġija-haunted, u huwa meqjus minn xi li jkunu f'kuntatt mad-dokument Wentworth li dan kien il-bidu attwali ta 'serje ta' avvenimenti biex jilħqu hekk devastanti ta 'qofol fl-1931. It-tifel, li kien imsemmi Simon mill-missier ix-xjenza li jfittxu tiegħu, twieled f'ġurnata f'Novembru, ta 'irbit tax-xita u smewwiet ripped miftuħa mis-sajjetti. Il-poplu li jgħixu qrib Riverside Sqaq jintuża sabiex jingħad li throaty u fgat rumbling kellhom deher li ġejjin minn taħt l-art minflok mill-sema throbbing; xi wħud anke tinsisti querulously li l-sajjetti, ħafna drabi jolqtu ħdejn ix-xmara, kien laqat darba, fil-forma ta 'pilastru li jpetpet ta' enerġija, direttament permezz ta 'saqaf ta' l-HOMESTEAD Peabody, anki jekk l-ebda marki ta 'dan il-fenomenu jista' wara li jkunu misjuba. L-iben kien, fi kwalunkwe każ, imwieled tal-ġenituri stramba, u l-ebda kontijiet superstitious bħal din għal inklinazzjonijiet kurjużi tiegħu fil-ħajja aktar tard bżonn jiġu mfittxija. Kien fl-1822, meta Simon Peabody kien sbatax jew tmintax-il sena, dik l-istruzzjoni rumored tiegħu minn missieru beda. Definittivament mill-passers tara gleams ħafifa ta 'dawl mill-xaters li kważi dejjem magħluqa matul il-twieqi, u spiss muttered diskussjonijiet jew argumenti bejn missier u iben jista' jkun overheard. Darba jew darbtejn dawn conclaves baxxa wera ħa fuq togħma ritualistic debboli, u dawk li semgħet il-kliem jesperjenza sens vag ta 'tħassib. A passers ftit jsirx suffiċjentement kurjużi biex pari permezz ta 'qasma fil-shutter, li fuqhom huma jistgħu ara l-poring Peabody iżgħar fuq xi TOME kbar u antiki, jew tassisti f'xi apparat magħruf u sinister tħares. Deher ovvju li l-boy kien jgħaddi minn perjodu ta 'bidu jew istruzzjoni f'xi fergħa ta' għarfien, ta 'tip definittivament OUTRE, jekk wieħed kellu imħallef minn rapporti. Dan il-perjodu, jidher, kompliet ukoll fis-xhur tard 1823, u fi tmiem l-aħħar tagħha bidla beda jiġi osservat minn dawk li jgħixu ħdejn il-bini antik dwar Riverside Sqaq. Għal ħaġa waħda, filwaqt li qabel biss il-mara tad-dar kienet tidher li qed tħalli l-binja, serje ta 'vjaġġi bil-lejl issa beda. Huma saru mill-missier u iben ma 'dak li deher grad estrem ta' kawtela, u d-destinazzjoni tas-soltu kien maħsub li tkun qrib ix-xmara. Fi żmien wieħed miż-żewġ kienu segwiti minn puzzled passer-by, li lura lill-rapport li kienu involuti fil xi tip ta 'surveyal ta' l-qedem, pont tax-xmara ħażiż-mkabbra. Huma kellhom ukoll clambered l-bank biex bilanċ precariously fuq l-ilmijiet ebon b'dawrien, u fl-istess ħin il-missier, qed teżamina l-jappoġġja mill-dawl ta 'fanal, mikrija cry ta' dak li tinstema simili realizzazzjoni. Ibnu deher ugwalment sorpriż meta ssieħbu l-persuna li qed tfittex, u kemm sparixxew taħt il-pont. Il-Watcher ma setgħetx ħsieb proċedimenti mingħajr ma tiġi żvelata lilu nnifsu, u huwa għamel mod tiegħu dar ma mind turbulenti. You can see why can't you. | ||
| Steveduffy (Steveduffy) Username: Steveduffy Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 86.156.197.111 |
I like the way it ends, Weber: "ma mind turbulenti" is set to become my new catchphrase. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Could be a lost giallo! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
By gum, I wish I'd written it in Maltese in the first place! It did indeed bring up James Joyce when I put in the original. Hubert, we're looking to have the book ready in time for MythosCon in January. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I was trying for Lithuanian but I clicked on the wrong language. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Just did the Lithuanian and it came out as James Joyce again... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
In Hatian Creole - it's david Foster wallace Pa gen anyen plis bezwen yo te note ki konsène koup la kirye nan kay la fontyè rivyè a pou yon tan long apre sa. Nan fen 1806 te yon pitit gason ki te fèt nan bilding tristeman brooding koup la ki soti nan rejyon an sorselri-ante, e li konsidere se pa kèk ki te vin an kontak avèk dokiman an Wentworth ke sa te kòmanse nan reyèl nan yon seri de evènman yo rive jwenn pou yon move Pi gwo pwen an 1931. te pitit la, ki te rele Simon pa syans-ap chache papa l ', fèt sou yon jou nan mwa Novanm nan, nan reprimand lapli ak syèl dechire ouvè pa zèklè. moun yo viv tou prè Riverside ale itilize vle di ke yon rok ak Anvlope woulman te sanble ta soti nan anba tè a olye ke soti nan syèl la batman; kèk ta ka menm ensiste querulously ki zèklè a, souvan travyè toupre rivyè a, te gen yon fwa frape, nan fòm yon poto sentiyan nan enèji, dirèkteman nan do kay la nan Homestead la Peabody, menm si pa gen mak sa a te kapab yon fenomèn apre sa te kapab jwenn. pitit gason an te, nan nenpòt ki vitès, paran yo fèt etranj, e pa gen tankou kontablite sipèstisye pou enklinasyon kirye li nan lavi pi ta bezwen yo tap chèche. Li te an 1822, lè Simon Peabody ta disèt oswa dizwit ane nan laj, ki ansèyman rimè sou li nan papa l ', konmanse. Definitivman pasan pa ta wè lueur endispoze nan limyè a vole yo ki prèske toujou kounye a fèmen sou fenèt yo, e souvan yo murmura diskisyon oswa agiman ant papa ak pitit gason yo ka antandu. Yon fwa oswa de fwa sa yo ba-vwa conclaves te pran sou yon fèbleman gou Sprituel, ak sa yo tande pawòl sa yo ta ka gen eksperyans nan yon sans vag nan problèm. Yon pasan kèk ta vin sifizamman kirye pèr atravè yon krak nan vole lan, sou kote yo kapab wè ki pi piti Peabody poring an sou kèk gwo Tome ak ansyen, oswa ede nan kèk aparèy enkoni ak dezas-ap chèche. Li te sanble evidan ke ti gason an te pase atravè yon peryòd de Ouverture oswa enstriksyon nan kèk branch nan konesans, nan yon kalite definitivman outr, si youn nan yo te bay jij nan rapò. Peryòd sa a, li parèt, kontinye byen nan mwa yo ki ta an 1823, ak nan lèt fen li te kòmanse yon chanjman yo te note ke moun ki rete tou pre bilding lan ansyin sou Riverside ale. Pou yon bagay, te Lè nou konsidere ke anvan sèlman fanm nan nan kay la yo te wè yo kite kay la, yon seri de vwayaj nocturne kounye a konmanse. Yo te fè papa ak pitit gason ak sa ki te sanble yon gwo degre nan prekosyon, e li te destinasyon abityèl yo te panse manti toupre rivyè an. Nan yon sèl fwa de nan yo te swiv pa yon entrige Passer-a, ki te retounen rapò yo ke yo te angaje nan kèk sòt de surveyal nan ansyen, pon nan rivyè bab panyòl-grandi. Yo te menm clambered desann bank nan balans prêcher anwo dlo yo ebon sekouan, ak nan yon sèl fwa papa a, ekzamine youn nan sipò yo nan limyè a yon antèn yo, fè soti yon rèl nan sa ki sonnen tankou realizasyon. Pitit gason li a te sanble egalman sezi lè li te jwenn Moun k ap Chèche a, ak tou de te disparèt anba pon an. obsevate an pa te kapab wè pwosè san revele tèt li, e li te fè wout lakay li ak yon lide ajite. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.44 |
There's an existential terror growing, as it dawns on me, that there is no primal, singular author... everyone is writing like someone else, no matter when in time, or what the language... there is no single, unique voice, only the constant cannibalized remains of others.... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.44 |
So they just released a new tape of Mel Gibson screaming at Oksana today. And (excuse the language) but when he's shouting at her You need a fucking kick up the ass for being a bitch, cunt, gold digging whore! With a pussy son! And I want my child, and no one will believe you! So fuck you!... I’m not giving you my house and you can rot unless you crawl back, suck my cock and say you’re sorry, in that order! Do you understand me? You fucking offend my fucking maleness, my masculinity, my being, my soul!... You need to say a lot to assuage my insanity because you’ve made me this way! ... he's actually screaming it in the style of Vladimir Nabokov. That Mel can be a subtle stylist. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.228.40 |
there is no single, unique voice, only the constant cannibalized remains of others Sums up art nicely, doesn't it? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
Well, I've given it a whizz and it turns out I write like Rudyard Kipling. Oh aye. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Hey, the computer machine thingy got one right: I put the opening lines to an Arthur C Clarke novel in and up popped the style comparison saying it was like Arthur C Clarke. However, when I put in a less well-known few lines by Clarke it came up as Gertrude Stein. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.251.147 |
Interesting: this time, the alphabet, in three-letter groupings, turns out to be how Margaret Mitchell writes. Ten "aaa"s in a row turns out to be the stylings of Stephanie Meyer. But then hundreds and hundreds of digits of pi, turns out to be... right back to Cory Doctorow. | ||
| Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.51.67 |
The machine got another one right! I keyed in a few lines of my hauntingly beautiful prose and the response was: 'Fuck off and seek gainful employment.' | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
Good to see you back, Alex! | ||
| Alexicon (Alexicon) Username: Alexicon Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 88.106.20.114 |
Thanks Stevie. I never actually left. It's the time factor that prevents more active participation in both reading and generating posts. It never fails to amaze me how you and most of the other regulars on this board can summon the time and energy to produce so many erudite,informative,contentious and bawdy posts.One almost imagines that Ramsey is secretly paying 50p per word to selected individuals.On the other hand,of course,I may simply be useless at managing time in a disciplined manner.Perhaps I should stay in more. No sign of dear old Des in recent posts. Is he doing missionary work at CERN,or something? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I miss Des too...  This is the only one of these message board thingies I bother with which explains my frequent presence, well that and having too much spare time on my hands. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.107.152 |
Des got caught up in a row and decided to leave. It wasn't a very nice time. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.11.20 |
Alex, indeed, Ramsey is paying me 50 cents a word to post here. Unfortunately, he's never told me which words.... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Ooo, seems like an opportune moment, since people have mentioned being away from the board, to say that I'm trying to wean myself off spending too much time here at the moment as well. Nothing to do with rows on the board (though I miss Des too ), I've just got loads of things I need to be getting on with and I need to save some time somewhere (same as Alex - nice to see you back too  ). So, if I'm not around as much as I have been, I'll just say "au revoir, mon petites" or "auf wiedersehen, pet" and I'll be back as soon as I can. (sorry, Weber, for threadjacking your thread) | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
Awww, Caroline... I'll miss your cheery disposition. Don't go too far. |