Dale Thorn wrote:
Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Along the lines of poetry festivals and spambots, I may suggest this. When I was 16, I wrote a prose writing program in Pascal. It read a long text and created a table: as the key, it had pairs of words, and as the data, it had list of all words that follow the pair in the index. The table was generated by a single pass through the source text, where there was a moving 3-word window and first two words were used as the key to the third word. The window moves one word at a time. The loop repeats indefinitely. The text that results looks like it was written by a schizophrenic -- it is more or less correct grammatically, uses more or less compatible words and seems to make sense, but the meaning seems to evade the reader. It is an extremely strange and annoying feeling.
If an actor really "gets into" their part, could you easily tell if the schizophrenia is good acting, or is latent in the actor? (BTW, does not apply to O.J. Simpson or Ronald Reagan).
I am not sure if I am a really good expert on mental health. Also, many people do not quite understand what schizophrenia really is and how it works. It could well be that no one understands it.
I hope you're not writing Pascal any more.
Not any more... - Igor.