The Write Stuff?
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izmeinaJust been experimenting with a certain text toy doing the rounds of blogville
Stolen from "The Well Tempered Plot Device"
Leonard Nimoy, currently *** directing his own resurrection in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, is the author of two books of poems rightly considered too hot for bookshops to handle. They're distributed solely through Athena poster shops, in the same series of icky little volumes with tinted pages and silhouettes of weeds that has given the world the if anything even more deathless works of the legendary Susan Polis Schutz, the Colorado Sappho. (You must know the stuff: "Our relationship / is beautiful / because / it is ours / because / it relates / to us.")
All you have to do is read through the following (genuine) sample poem, and then use your skill and judgement to supply the missing lines from the ones that follow. (These include about 80% of the text of Nimoy's second book of poems, which by a novel inspiration consists almost entirely of excerpts from the first.) Then turn to the end of the article to find out how you scored. First, the specimen:
and tossed in the box
Out came
and then the poem itself
"Rocket ships / Are exciting / But so are roses / On a birthday
"Computers are exciting / But so is a sunset
"And logic / Will never replace / Love
"Sometimes I wonder / Where I belong / In the future / Or / In the past
"I guess I'm just / An old-fashioned / Space-man."
In the box it goes
Guess it's the space-man that does it
Then there's the puzzle
And now it's over to you:
(i) I love you not for what I want you to be ... (2 points for the missing line.)
(ii) I loved you then for what you were ... (3 points.)
(iii) I miss you / And not only you ... (3 points)
(iv) My love for you is not a gift to you ... (1 point.)
– and the hardest one: here you have two lines to guess of a three-line poem.
(v) I am me ... (2+4 points.)
So bad that it's good? What other explanation could there possibly be
Putting it all together we get
The whole is obviously less than the sum of its parts
And now a real writing analyzer
Can already see the creepy Fool in the Dark Grimoire Asylum
Stolen from "The Well Tempered Plot Device"
Leonard Nimoy, currently *** directing his own resurrection in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, is the author of two books of poems rightly considered too hot for bookshops to handle. They're distributed solely through Athena poster shops, in the same series of icky little volumes with tinted pages and silhouettes of weeds that has given the world the if anything even more deathless works of the legendary Susan Polis Schutz, the Colorado Sappho. (You must know the stuff: "Our relationship / is beautiful / because / it is ours / because / it relates / to us.")
All you have to do is read through the following (genuine) sample poem, and then use your skill and judgement to supply the missing lines from the ones that follow. (These include about 80% of the text of Nimoy's second book of poems, which by a novel inspiration consists almost entirely of excerpts from the first.) Then turn to the end of the article to find out how you scored. First, the specimen:
and tossed in the box
Out came
and then the poem itself
"Rocket ships / Are exciting / But so are roses / On a birthday
"Computers are exciting / But so is a sunset
"And logic / Will never replace / Love
"Sometimes I wonder / Where I belong / In the future / Or / In the past
"I guess I'm just / An old-fashioned / Space-man."
In the box it goes
Guess it's the space-man that does it
Then there's the puzzle
And now it's over to you:
(i) I love you not for what I want you to be ... (2 points for the missing line.)
(ii) I loved you then for what you were ... (3 points.)
(iii) I miss you / And not only you ... (3 points)
(iv) My love for you is not a gift to you ... (1 point.)
– and the hardest one: here you have two lines to guess of a three-line poem.
(v) I am me ... (2+4 points.)
So bad that it's good? What other explanation could there possibly be
Putting it all together we get
The whole is obviously less than the sum of its parts
And now a real writing analyzer
I actually write like
a moonstruck lunatic possibly actually wearing a straightjacket
a moonstruck lunatic possibly actually wearing a straightjacket
I Actually Write Like Analyze your writing!
Can already see the creepy Fool in the Dark Grimoire Asylum
I actually write like
someone about to go on a killing spree
someone about to go on a killing spree
I Actually Write Like Analyze your writing!
