Love is ...

[spc476]

An idea I stole from Douglas Hofstadter from his book Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern wherein:

1. Set our corpus to a single word, “love.”
2. For each word in our corpus, replace said word with its definition.
3. If we haven't reached 50,000 words, repeat step 2.

That's pretty much it. I spent more time finding and parsing an online dictionary than I did on the code to implement the idea, and I kind of overshot by 120,000 words (for a total of 170,007 word).

Anyway, Love is ...

Also, my code and references.

Written using Lua.

[greg-kennedy]

Reminds me of this one from 2015: https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/66

This seems to be the "purest" form of it though, as it starts from a single word instead of a sentence : )