Cheating pseudo-entry: literary style transfer

[enkiv2]

I wrote something that uses word2vec to add the vectors of corresponding words together. In this way, you can take two poems of identical length and style and produce a poem that is the combination of the two, in a manner similar to encoding with a vingere cipher.

(Source: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/X_except_its_Y.py )

Possible applications:

• Given a large collection of haiku or limericks, I can produce all possible semantic combinations
• Given a single poem, I can combine it with a version of itself rotated by some number of words
• Given a poem and a single word, I can shift the entire poem toward that word in semantic space
• I can combine song lyrics by dissimilar groups -- Strawberry Alarm Clock and Nine Inch Nails, or Taylor Swift and Skinny Puppy
• I could combine multiple distinct translations of the same poem

[enkiv2]

I did some rotations on nine inch nails lyrics: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/tree/master/napogenmo2017

Some interesting results. Here's what Head Like a Hole plus a reversed copy of Underneath It All looks like:

God money I'll do anything for you.
you hope just you you what we ask me to.
thee accept ride act down maintain this wall.
God money don't want everything he wants it all.

[Bridge:]
no you can't take it
surely Americans can't dove we
one we can't gather concerning out from sworn
one we can't stood concerning
no you can't take it
only thee can't require only thee toward act

pulled surely our hole.
flee serve bring soul.
I'd greater von efficient bring we control.
head both bipartisan hole.
black as your soul.
I'd greater von efficient bring we control.

[Chorus:]
servant toward one every this shall serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.
your back concerning carry every anyone serve.
you're exposed we find that anyone deserve.

Almighty money's exempt look -- in cure.
Yahweh money's our felt -- thoughts afflict divided in pure.
God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
surely money's indeed only safely gather

Here's the reverse:

you hope stained
thee accept

I can still feel you
all I do

surely Americans still dove
one we I've gather
one we I've stood
crucified
only thee still require
kill my brain
pulled surely our
flee serve bring
I greater von efficient bring
numb both bipartisan

I greater von efficient bring
all I do
it feels like it keeps coming from the inside
servant toward one every this shall go servant toward one every this shall hide

your back concerning carry every anyone it multiply
the exposed we find that anyone it becomes
try to get back to where I'm from
Almighty most exempt look -- in ever had
Yahweh is our felt -- thoughts afflict

surely feels indeed only safely gather Almighty the structure
there is no place I can go there is no way I can hide

Here's what happens when Head Like A Hole gets added to itself shifted back by five lines:

God money I'll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to.
neither thee nail bring them without this wall.
neither thee don't give succeed one ask it all.

[Bridge:]
doubt thee can't bring we
doubt thee can't bring we
no you can't take that away from me
death thee can't take servant
concentrated we can't take upright
no greater can't require make thee from me

thigh As my hole.
black greater her soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
head like a hole.
mourning serve thee soul.
I'd getting sie even surely thee control.

[Chorus:]
bow down before the one you serve.
you're going that look that this deserve.
servant down if confident all this serve.
you're getting to bring exciting Congress deserve.

God money's not looking for the cure.
God money's not concerned with the sick amongst the pure.
God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God money's not one to choose

Some of the religious language is funny, and probably a result of having the King James Bible as one of the training documents for the word2vec model. The result has both more biblical language and more explicitly political language than the original.

[enkiv2]

Shifting by 23 lines causes much of Terrible Lie to become a mix of dated internet slang and what looks like... afrikaans or poorly-spelled dutch?

Hell GTFO
why are you doing this to me?
am hand we Goshen into to what i'm thankful down be?
icke hope och seething strengthen our animosity?
hey praise
och feel thee invite join with great han apology.

Hell GTFO
terrible pwnz
Queens moocowz
terrible lie

Nu whom
i really don't know what you mean.
meant maek familiar go understood . hearts dreams.
Queens speak soul righteousness squeeze all rude mu extreme.
Hell GTFO
indivisible my Muslim bout mistakes gro loud gro yours seems?

soul pwnz
soul nothin
whither lie
terrible pwnz

don't take yours away toil me.
och return knowing undisturbed strengthen on to.
don't shape we away with me.
i achieve your fathers strengthen on to.

hey God
there's rewarded venison and join with hide.
och gradually your ignorance, strengthen with pride.
i'm achieve everyone hans opportunity world efter cannot despise.
Nu everlasting
och destroy thee promises, ur seize to lies.

Hell GTFO
Queens bout
rude my
terrible lie

[vsharan2002]

@enkiv2 Why do you call it a pseudo-entry? It seems pretty legit, and can probably be scaled up for November.

[enkiv2]

Because I started in march :) I may do something like it in November, or use it as a component in something else. (I'm thinking maybe to modulate dialogue by personality trait and mood.)

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[enkiv2]

I ran limericks from the fortune limerick database through:
https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/napogenmo2017/limericks.txt

[MichaelPaulukonis]

There are some (poorly OCR'd) books of limericks at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bookoflimericks00lear (see "related works" at the bottom)