The Iliad :: 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 Iliad.

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

The Iliad

abridged, after Homer

Hector volleyed Achilles volleyed
Troy—blazed sweating Zeus Troy

Hector! Troy sword
blazed rage blazed, Hector; sweating Hector

sword Achilles Zeus
sweating Zeus, Achilles Hector.

Hector—sword Hector,
sweating rage blazed

Troy—grapple sweating sword sword Achilles—
volleyed blazed. Rage volleyed! Zeus? Blazed

Hector blazed blazed
Hector rage? Troy.

Volleyed grapple Troy? Sword sweating, grapple
blazed rage! Achilles blazed Achilles Achilles

Troy! Blazed sweating, Hector,
grapple rage; sword volleyed Zeus Achilles,

grapple. Zeus, sweating sword Zeus sweating
grapple sword, blazed

blazed sword Zeus sweating
sword grapple? Hector Achilles sword

sweating Troy! Hector Achilles sweating volleyed!
Volleyed—rage grapple Zeus rage

blazed.

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