I've had a fascination with fairy tale generation using code. Similar to my previous project, I decided to use fairy tale names, places, objects and actions in the python generator to make short fairy tale like outputs. I made each output have "Once Upon A Time" and "they lived happily ever after", with the middle randomly chosen from each list, shuffled each time. All the code can be found here. Below are some outputs I got:
Once Upon A Time, snow white in a land far far away using a talking tea cup turned into a prince and they lived happily ever after Once Upon A Time, the seven dwarfs in a land far far away using a golden egg killed the wicked witch and they lived happily ever after Once Upon A Time, the wicked witch in a forest using a poison apple let down her long hair and they lived happily ever after Once Upon A Time, a princess under the sea using a golden egg went to the ball and they lived happily ever after Once Upon A Time, a princess in a tiny cottage using a magic mirror let down her long hair and they lived happily ever after Once Upon A Time, the seven dwarfs in a land far far away using a golden egg let down her long hair and they lived happily ever after Once Upon A Time, the sorceress in a land far far away using a magic potion killed the wicked witch and they lived happily ever after
I also experimented with randomly reshuffling the first paragraph of the United States Constitution. This is what I got:
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I think the idea of reshuffling very well known texts and seeing them in reordered sequences makes us look at something familiar to us in a new way. It also makes one question the nature of the text. How does reshuffling the order of the words change the meaning of the text and in what way?