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-''The London project is an extreme version which has come about as a result of conversations between Brendan, Jonathan, and Leif in Berlin in June 2009, and in subsequent emails between Brendan, Jonathan and Sabrina.''+''The London project is an extreme version which has come about as a result of conversations between Brendan, Jonathan, and Leif at [[http://www.1010.co.uk/org/breakthrough.html|Breakthrough]] Berlin in June 2009, and in subsequent emails between Brendan, Jonathan and Sabrina.''
  
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-**What the writers need**+**What each writer needs**
  
 ''A laptop for the five days'' ''A laptop for the five days''
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-//The selected text will be deposited in a 'text dump'. From this dump, and including the edit-software code and selected prompts, the life-novel will be made. This will be sent to a formatted template and from this the book will be printed within 24 hours using Print-on-Demand technology. Its hoped that we will have some fifty copies of the book for the Launch on Saturday the 20th Feb.//+''The selected text will be deposited in a 'text dump'. From this dump, and including the edit-software code and selected prompts, the life-novel will be made. This will be sent to a formatted template and from this the book will be printed within 24 hours using Print-on-Demand technology. Its hoped that we will have some fifty copies of the book for the Launch on Saturday the 20th Feb.''
  
  
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 ''3. Grammatic Convolution.  Randomly selects one input text as the grammatical structure and tags each word with part-of-speech.  Tags the other texts and substitutes the words from the "structure" text with appropriate part-of-speech substitutes from the other "corpus" texts.'' ''3. Grammatic Convolution.  Randomly selects one input text as the grammatical structure and tags each word with part-of-speech.  Tags the other texts and substitutes the words from the "structure" text with appropriate part-of-speech substitutes from the other "corpus" texts.''
 ''This would essentially use the random-select process to pick one of the chunks to be the 'structure text'.  The other texts would be used as part-of-speech substitution databases.  Having a static 'structure text' could also be interesting.  We could do several iterations of the same structure, each with different substitutions.  An ad nauseam chapter or "Chomsky Variations".'' ''This would essentially use the random-select process to pick one of the chunks to be the 'structure text'.  The other texts would be used as part-of-speech substitution databases.  Having a static 'structure text' could also be interesting.  We could do several iterations of the same structure, each with different substitutions.  An ad nauseam chapter or "Chomsky Variations".''
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 4. Synonymic/Antonymic Distortion.  Randomly replaces words with synonyms or antonyms from the wordnet database.'' 4. Synonymic/Antonymic Distortion.  Randomly replaces words with synonyms or antonyms from the wordnet database.''
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