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I question the efficacy of this statistical analysis tool.

(via) Pasting in the first half of “Sundowning” got me Margaret Atwood.
“Swan Song” gets Chuck Palahniuk.
This Wallace Stevens homage gets J.K. Rowling. Hmm.

Oscar Wilde writes like Oscar Wilde.
P. G. Wodehouse writes like P. G. Wodehouse.
H. D. writes like Ursula K. Le Guin.
Ursula K. Le Guin writes like Stephen King.
Stephen King writes like Stephen King.
James Joyce writes like James Joyce.
T. S. Eliot also writes like James Joyce.
Emily Dickinson writes like Arthur Conan Doyle.
Arthur Conan Doyle writes like Daniel Defoe.
Daniel Defoe writes like Johathan Swift (sic).
Jonathan Swift also writes like Johathan Swift (sic).

Well As long as that’s settled.

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This was written by joannemerriam. Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at 10:13 pm. Filed under Ahahahahahah!. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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joannemerriam wrote:

Also. Best comment ever in that Metafilter thread:

Who you write like if you enter the following words forty times and nothing else:

Fuck: Chuck Palahniuk

Shit: Stephen King

Magic: J.K. Rowling

Cock: James Joyce

Murder: Edgar Allan Poe

Lesbians: J.D. Salinger

Sex: Margaret Atwood

Tacos: Daniel DeFoe

Yeah that last one made me have to stop and sit down.
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 12:47 PM on July 14

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 10:26 pm | Permalink
margosita wrote:

Love this!

Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 1:33 am | Permalink
jenniey wrote:

this is extremely amusing, joanne.

Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 4:23 pm | Permalink