Paul Thompson

As it happens, I have a [folder](https://mega.nz/#!ASBxRYrA!Ko01ovAqYRuPAKDuhj1V5-HpJ7eWe21OilyEelSCXpg) full of Beatles song lyrics. Hope it helps, in case you hadn't sourced the data yet.

No problem! They were all scraped from [Genius](https://genius.com/), using [this command-line script](https://github.com/nossidge/lyrics) and a list of song names.

As I suspected, this is not 100% possible with just starting letters. The problem is the letter 'z', which only matches lines beginning with 'Zounds'. These lines are pretty rare,...

I figured it out! `'Zounds` is formally a contraction. If I get rid of the leading apostrophe it all sorts itself out, without sacrificing authenticity to the corpus or deviating...

It's done! Full [output](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nossidge/shakespeare_acrostics/master/data/output_acrostics.txt). `wc` gives word count as 602,175. I've also updated the [readme](https://github.com/nossidge/shakespeare_acrostics) to detail the amendments I made to the input, if anyone is interested in the...

More like Wolfram's [256 binary rules](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CellularAutomaton.html).

This is terrible and I love it.