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Poetry for Hackers: A crab canon for Douglas Hofstadter

82 pointsby patrickasalmost 14 years ago

5 comments

bambaxalmost 14 years ago
Neat idea. My try:<p>Unbelievable!<p>He found<p>on the tired sofa an image<p>with his ex girlfriend,<p>a strange and worn-out pillow,<p>and he cried; he longed for<p>a strange and worn-out pillow<p>with his ex girlfriend<p>on the tired sofa; an image<p>he found<p>unbelievable.
biotalmost 14 years ago
If you liked that, play the game Braid (<a href="http://braid-game.com" rel="nofollow">http://braid-game.com</a>). I won't give any spoilers, but it's a $9.95 purchase so just go out and buy it already. :)
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TeMPOraLalmost 14 years ago
A beautiful poem. Also, GEB is a great book.
Fargrenalmost 14 years ago
The spanish translation of that chapter of GEB was not enjoyable, sadly enough.
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michael_dorfmanalmost 14 years ago
That was a very nice poem, but these kinds of things are actually not all that hard, if you are willing to play with them long enough. I once wrote a palindrome that was a rhymed quatrain-- it took about a week of fiddling, if I recall correctly.
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