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Subject: Word Game Challenge Author: Orneo [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:23:24 03/13/01 Tue Author Host/IP: home.sourcetech.com/216.5.102.75 I also would like to try something a little different for you guys. An experiment of sorts. If it works, I would like to replace the word game with it. What I am going to do is post a paragraph from a famous book and you guys are going to rearrange it into a poem. Kind of like the frig magnets. Now, you will want to use as much of the paragraph as you can without changing any of the words. The more you use, of the orig. text, the better. Here, let me show you. Here is a paragraph from Alice In Wonderland. "I’m sure I’m not Gertrude,” she said, “for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all--and I’m sure I can’t be Florence, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, she’s she, and I’m I, and--oh dear! how puzzling it all is! I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is fourteen--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at this rate! But the Multiplication Table don’t signify--let’s try Geography. London is the capital of France, and Rome is the capital of Yorkshire, and Paris--oh dear! dear! that’s all wrong, I’m certain! I must have been changed for Florence! I’ll try and say “How doth the little”,” and she crossed her hands on her lap, and began, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange; and the words did not sound the same as they used to do: Here is the Start of the cut and paste poem: “for her hair goes in such long ringlets I’m sure I can’t be Florence and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all I’m sure I’m not Gertrude all sorts of things I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. for I know she knows such a very little! How doth the little get to twenty at this rate The Leftovers: ",” she said, , --and , , and she, oh! Besides, she’s she, and I’m I, and--oh dear! how puzzling it all is! Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is fourteen--oh dear! I shall never ! But the Multiplication Table don’t signify--let’s try Geography. London is the capital of France, and Rome is the capital of Yorkshire, and Paris--oh dear! dear! that’s all wrong, I’m certain! I must have been changed for Florence! I’ll try and say “”,” and she crossed her hands on her lap, and began, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange; and the words did not sound the same as they used to do: Anyway, give this a try and when Sherry is able and you guys are willing, we will turn historic books into poems.... How does all that sound? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]