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Dadadodo: Exterminate all rational thought

A software creating new sentences from old ones based on frequency of word occurrences in the original text.

Got to read this later.

"William S. Burroughs called this 'cut up theory'. His approach was to take a page of text, divide it into quadrants, rearrange the quadrants, and then read the page across the divisions. He wrote this way; writing, cutting up, shuffling, publishing the result. Collage and randomness applied to words. He saw this as a way of escaping from a prison that words create for us, locking us down into one way of thinking: an idea echoed in Orwell's '1984', where the purpose of NewSpeak was to make ThoughtCrime impossible by making it inexpressible: 'The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.''"

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