Palette-based Madlib Engine
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. — L. Zadeh
The point of Dunmanifestin [is] to inject chaos into humans' cliched ideas or, at least, let them be hunter-gatherers instead of farmers of culture. — B. Christel
Eroton, a glass blowery built on a mountain in Rake. Some say it contains priceless pipes made of pearl. — Dunmanifestin
Immeasurably inspired by RandListGen. Try it on some palettes of other genres, or write your own!
Try It!
gem install dunmanifestindunmanifestindunmanifestin -p 'I had a [animal], once. Its name was [name].'
Try dunamnifestin --help for usage:
Options:
-d, --debug Display errors and logging
-i, --interactive Use an interactive command prompt
-n, --count=<i> Specify how many lines of output to generate at once
-c, --copy Copies manifestation into your clipboard
-g, --genre=<s> Specify a genre or two by filepath, e.g. '-g genres/scifi/', '-g ./genres/poetry:./genres/romantics'
-p, --phrase=<s> Specify a phrase or list, e.g. 'The [animal] sat on the [article]' or '[weapon]'
-o, --chomp remove the trailing newline from the output
-f, --file=<s> Read a file as the phrase
-h, --help Show this message
Tips
Highlight proper nouns with: dunmanifestin | grcat ~/.grc/dun.conf
regexp=(?<!(\.\s))([A-Z])(\s[A-Z]|\w|'|\-[A-Z]|\sof\s[A-Z]|\sthe\s[A-Z]|(,(?=\s[A-Z])))+
colours=bold magenta
Check word-frequency of your palettes with:
dunmanifestin | tr ' ' '\n' \
| sed s/[,.]// | sort | uniq -c \
| sort -n
Tack on perl -lane 'printf "%-30s%s\n", $F[1], "=" x $F[0]' for a histogram.