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+# Damned Fort
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+A very hasty entry for [NaNoGenMo 2024](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2024).
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+This takes [the Gutenberg text of Charles Fort's classic of paranormal 
+phenomena _The Book of the Damned_](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22472) and uses the [compromise nlp library](https://compromise.cool) to pull out nouns and verbs from successive chunks, shuffle them and stick them back together, producing something a bit like modernist poetry:
+
+	are mummies
+	animated mere shadows
+	tottering I twitching
+	have been damned a procession of data
+	excluded the highest respectability
+	will march the spirit of anarchy
+	march they'll are
+	are them fiery
+	are I have exhumed
+	are the pue
+	has excluded giants shall have
+	are 1 A procession of the damned. will walk
+	read clowns are
+	mean corpses
+	go by like THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED
+	captained whims and amiabilities
+	are little harlots sound
+	will flit rags
+
+Live version is [here](https://etc.mikelynch.org/damned-fort/)