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If anyone is curious about the sample text: * "All their equipment and instruments are alive." (Mr. Spaceship, by Philip K. Dick) * "A red flair silhouetted t
by di 10y ago
If anyone is curious about the sample text:
* "All their equipment and instruments are alive." (Mr. Spaceship, by Philip K. Dick)
* "A red flair silhouetted the jagged edge of a wing." (The Jewels of Aptor, by Samuel R. Delany)
* "I watched the storm, so beautiful yet terrific." (Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley)
* "Almost before we knew it, we had left the ground." (A Trip to Venus, by John Munro)
* "A shining crescent far beneath the flying vessel." (Triplanetary, by E. E. Smith)
* "It was going to be a lonely trip back." (Youth by Isaac Asimov)
* "Mist enveloped the ship three hours out from port." (The Jewels of Aptor, by Samuel R. Delany)
* "My two natures had memory in common." (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
* "Silver mist suffused the deck of the ship." (The Jewels of Aptor, by Samuel R. Delany)
* "The face of the moon was in shadow." (Mr. Spaceship, by Philip K. Dick)
* "She stared through the window at the stars." (The Millionaire's Convenient Bride, by Catherine George) ????
* "The recorded voice scratched in the speaker." (Deathworld, by Harry Harrison)
* "The sky was cloudless and of a deep dark blue." (A Trip to Venus, by John Munro)
* "The spectacle before us was indeed sublime." (A Trip to Venus, by John Munro)
* "Then came the night of the first falling star." (The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells)
* "Waves flung themselves at the blue evening." (The Jewels of Aptor, by Samuel R. Delany)
- the_common_man 10y ago"She stared through the window at the stars" is just too common a phrase :-) A simple google search suggests a hit in atleast 3-4 books.
- di 10y agoSeems like there would be one that fits the theme though, no?
- stupidcar 10y agoThere isn't actually many results at all for that exact phrase, as far as I can see. It looks likely that it's a modification of "he stared through the window at the stars", which doesn't occur much more often, but did appear in A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay.
- mortenjorck 10y agoThe first one on the list had convinced me this was a very interestingly-trained Markov chain generator. I need to read more Philip K. Dick.
- icebraining 10y agoThat's always an appropriate state of mind. And luckily, that story is already in the public domain: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32522 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32522 As are a few others: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33399 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33399
- Joeboy 10y agoThere's actually more PD PKD than that, but some of it's only available as scans rather than text. And some of his works has disputed PD status, eg. there was some kind of tussle between the Dick estate and the makers of The Adjustment Bureau over its PD status.
- nabla9 10y agoWho still remembers MegaHal? https://megahal.alioth.debian.org/ https://megahal.alioth.debian.org/ Some of my favorites: COULD SHAKE MY TINY FIST AND SWEAR I WASN'T WRONG, BUT WHAT'S THE SENSE IN ARGUING WHEN YOU'RE MUCH TOO BUSY RETURNING TO THE LAVATORY. AMAZING GRACE, HOW SWEET THE SOUND OF ONE OR MORE NUMBERS REPRESENTED IN DIGITAL FORM. SATAN GUIDES US TELEPATHICLY THROUGH RECTAL THERMOMETERS. WHY DO YOU THINK ABOUT META-REASONING?
- lylejohnson 10y agoLooking through the "Classic Quotes" list, it's apparent that MegaHAL was a big They Might Be Giants fan.
- vidarh 10y agoIf you want something that reads like a Markov chain output, try reading his Exegesis (basically written after/about his mental breakdown - it's fascinating, but makes his novels look like like reading)
- schoen 10y agoThere are also longer texts that you see if you change "Sentence" to "Paragraph". I don't know if they're from elsewhere in the same works or not.
- masfrost 10y agoThey're from books too. A Trip to Venus and The Time Machine
- jaseemabid 10y agoRefreshing to see something other than lorem ipsum.
- bobwaycott 10y agoAlso, lazy dogs who find themselves jumped over by speedy brown foxes.
- freestockoption 10y agoHow do companies like Google come up with the sample text?
- puranjay 10y agoI'm Indian and I'm seeing a lot of Hindi fonts on the front page with lines from Hindi novels as well Nice little attention to detail!
- vineetraja 10y agoThose are not lines from hindi novels, rather translations of the lines from the novels, as cited by GP above. "All their equipment and instruments are alive." as "उनके सभी औज़ार और उपकरण किसी ना किसी स्वरूप में ज़िंदा हैं"