begin $story;
if ($style == 'minimal') {
$context = no;
$logic = no;
$parataxis = yes;
} elseif ($style == 'mainstream_realist') {
load $suburbia;
forbid $back_story;
require $character_phys_description;
set $timeline linear unless ($Alice_Munro || $David_Means);
}
load $conflict;
require $page_two_move {
if ($realist == 'yes') {
allow $context [limit = 1];
if ($Amy_Hempel) {
load $dogs;
set $puns;
}
} else {
disorient = 1 * ($length);
load $Lish ($my_syntax->twist());
}
}
Noticed a certain consistency in literary journals? Been wondering why it takes months, even years, to receive rejection letters?
Well, wonder no more.
“We started developing the software in the early 1970s,” said The New Yorker’s Roger Angell. “Ann Beattie was an early adopter, and Alice Munro. Think of those complex timelines—it would have been really impossible to keep track without some kind of automation.”
But The New Yorker wasn’t alone.
“[Gordon] Lish brought it to a whole other level,” said HTMLGiant’s Blake Butler. “No way you could have had automatically generated indie lit without his Becket subroutines. People are still using his WordLimit daemon, and no one knows how it works.”
Lish’s work benefitted from faster processors, as did that of others in the 1990s.
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Wikipedia entries for former royal houses—not the best research sources:
