Moby-Dick :: The (Pi)thy Library :: Christopher Louvet

The (Pi)thy Library

What is this anyway?

Mathematically derived texts based on ten words chosen at random from a single text—currently from Moby-Dick.

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Moby-Dick

abridged, after Herman Melville

Sea: whale Ishmael
whale dead: mast-head circumventing
blows dead, sea
dead. Embarked mast-head Pequod! Mast-Head sea!
Circumventing sea, embarked. Ishmael blows

circumventing? Blows, Ishmael. Sea sea embarked—
sea circumventing Pequod
mast-head dead Ahab!
Circumventing embarked. Embarked;
Ishmael, whale? Mast-Head Pequod

whale blows mast-head sea
mast-head mast-head sea Pequod
dead—whale Ahab
dead embarked circumventing
Ahab: mast-head Pequod

Ishmael mast-head! Ishmael!
Ishmael, dead! Mast-Head—circumventing sea
Ahab Pequod embarked! Whale
blows, Ishmael Ahab
blows circumventing, embarked? Blows! Circumventing Ahab

embarked mast-head mast-head:
embarked blows, circumventing: embarked Ahab? Sea
Ishmael embarked! Circumventing dead
sea Ishmael circumventing: whale whale
Pequod? Ahab blows. Pequod: mast-head?

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