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Gothic Poetry Generator
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r""" | |
gotham | |
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Gothic Poetry Generator | |
""" | |
import sys | |
import random | |
import itertools | |
them = ['angels', 'mourners', 'shadows', 'storm clouds', 'memories', | |
'condemned', 'hand of Heaven', 'stroke of death', 'damned', | |
'witches', 'corpses', 'vermin', 'vampires', 'drunkards', 'convicts'] | |
them_verb = ['follow', 'hover', 'approach', 'loom', 'taunt', 'hear', | |
'laugh', 'surround', 'compell', 'scour', 'deliver'] | |
adj = ['cold', 'dead', 'dark', 'frozen', 'angry', 'ghastly', 'unholy', | |
'cunning', 'deep', 'morose', 'maligned', 'rotting', 'sickly', 'petty', | |
'sharper', 'craven', 'bound', 'plaintive', 'mournful', 'rabid', | |
'quivering', 'enchanted', 'tremulous', 'stubborn', 'swift', 'cursed', | |
'haunted', 'wretched', 'bitter', 'rustling'] | |
me_part = ['neck', 'heart', 'head', 'eyes', 'soul', 'blood', 'essence', | |
'wisdom', 'sword'] | |
feeling = ['pain', 'horror', 'frenzy', 'agony', 'numbness', 'fear', 'love', | |
'terror', 'madness', 'torment', 'bitterness', 'misery', | |
'melancholy', 'plight', 'lust', 'unworthy', 'humanity', 'dreary'] | |
angst = ['care', 'understand', 'question', 'consider', 'forget'] | |
me_verb = ['flee', 'dance', 'flail madly', 'fall limply', 'hang my head', | |
'try to run', 'cry out', 'call thy name', 'beg forgiveness', | |
'bleed', 'tremble', 'hear', 'give', 'offer'] | |
thing = ['kisses', 'poison', 'tokens', 'servitude'] | |
action = ['sever', 'crush', 'mutilate', 'slay', 'wound', 'smite', 'drip', | |
'melt', 'cast', 'mourn', 'avenge', 'posses', 'thrust', 'make', | |
'free', 'absolve', 'forsake'] | |
place = ['witching hour', 'gates of hell', 'door', 'path', 'death', | |
'doom', 'oblivion', 'life ending', 'Hell', 'nothingness', | |
'purgatory', 'void', 'earth', 'tomb', 'broken ground', | |
'barren land', 'swirling dust', 'night', 'time ending', | |
'domain', 'bed', 'sepulcher', 'demise'] | |
def lorem_gotham(): | |
"""Gothic Poetry Generator | |
Uses Python generators to yield eternal angst. | |
When you need to generate random verbiage to test your code or | |
typographic design, let's face it... Lorem Ipsum and "the quick | |
brown fox" are old and boring! | |
What you need is something with *flavor*, the kind of thing a | |
depressed teenager with a lot of black makeup would write. | |
""" | |
w = lambda l: l[random.randrange(len(l))] | |
er = lambda w: w[:-1]+'ier' if w.endswith('y') else (w+'r' if w.endswith('e') else w+'er') | |
s = lambda w: w+'s' | |
ing = lambda w: w+'ing' | |
cap = lambda w: w.capitalize() | |
punc = lambda c, *l: " ".join(l)+c | |
sentence = lambda *l: lambda: " ".join(l) | |
pick = lambda *l: (l[random.randrange(len(l))])() | |
while True: | |
yield pick( | |
sentence('The',w(adj),w(them),'and the',w(them),w(them_verb)), | |
sentence(cap(ing(w(them_verb))),'me to',w(place)), | |
sentence('They',w(action),'my',w(me_part),'and',w(me_verb),'with all my',w(feeling)), | |
sentence(cap(w(action)),'my',w(adj),w(me_part),'to this',w(place)), | |
sentence('In a',w(place),'my',w(feeling),'shall',w(me_verb)), | |
sentence('A',w(place),'where',w(them),w(me_verb)), | |
sentence('To',w(them),'whose',w(thing),'be thy',w(feeling)), | |
sentence(cap(punc(',', er(w(adj)),'than',w(adj),w(feeling)))), | |
sentence(cap(er(w(adj))),'than',w(them),'in the',w(place)), | |
sentence('I',w(me_verb),'in',w(feeling),'with',w(them)), | |
sentence('I',w(action),w(adj),w(thing),'to thee'), | |
sentence('O this',w(adj),w(adj),w(place)), | |
sentence('Not even the',w(them),'can',w(them_verb),'me'), | |
sentence(punc('!','My',w(me_part)),punc('!','The',w(feeling))), | |
sentence('No one',s(w(angst)),'why the',w(them),w(them_verb + me_verb)), | |
) | |
def lorem_gotham_title(): | |
"""Names your poem | |
""" | |
w = lambda l: l[random.randrange(len(l))] | |
sentence = lambda *l: lambda: " ".join(l) | |
pick = lambda *l: (l[random.randrange(len(l))])() | |
return pick( | |
sentence('why i',w(me_verb)), | |
sentence(w(place)), | |
sentence('a',w(adj),w(adj),w(place)), | |
sentence('the',w(them))) | |
def main(args): | |
"""I provide a command-line interface for this module | |
""" | |
print "-~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~-" | |
print lorem_gotham_title().center(50) | |
print "-~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~--~*~-" | |
poem = lorem_gotham() | |
for n in range(16): | |
if n in (4, 8, 12): | |
print poem.next() | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
main(sys.argv) |
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