The Great Gatsby :: 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 The Great Gatsby.

Refresh the page for a new "poem" with different punctuation, line lengths, and stanza lengths. The words used will remain consistent.

The Great Gatsby

abridged, after F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hello drink? Nick drink;
turbulent inherited answer sport turbulent, hello

turbulent Gatsby: inherited!
Car; inherited hello answer;

hello Gatsby Nick sport! Answer. Sport
Nick—hello hello—Gatsby hello answer

car inherited! Turbulent Daisy
answer—Gatsby; Gatsby Nick,

drink, inherited car drink sport
inherited, hello inherited! Inherited hello car.

Turbulent? Drink, Daisy
turbulent, Gatsby answer Daisy: inherited? Car

Nick: inherited Nick—Nick turbulent
inherited answer! Hello Daisy—

car Gatsby, drink! Sport
Nick Daisy sport! Answer Gatsby sport

answer Daisy Gatsby inherited inherited
Gatsby sport answer Gatsby Daisy hello

Nick. Gatsby, answer turbulent,
hello Nick answer, drink drink car?

Daisy. Sport, car! Inherited?

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