Trunkless

being a web-based tool for making cut-up poetry using the entire¹ Project Gutenberg collection of English books.

Trunkless is a spiritual successor to prosaic.

This repository contains code for:

• processing the Gutenberg corpus
• creating and accessing a large sqlite3 corpus of lines
• hosting a web front-end

The actual Gutenberg collection of books can be found at The Internet Archive.

TODO

• ingest
  • strip header/footer
  • emit clean lines of appropriate length
  • associate lines with book metadata
  • db schema
• server
  • /
  • /line
• front-end
  • dark/light mode toggle
  • cookie for dark/light mode
  • editing interface
  • save feature (as plaintext, as image)
  • htmx or just raw ajax for accessing /line
  • font and icon styling

¹ as of January, 2024