That's writer thing

[guppiecat]

I'm sure you all have seen the writing "analysis" thing making the rounds. I was curious as to it's depth... so off to Gutenberg I went.

1) I plugged in much of the first canto of Don Juan, by Lord Byron. I got:



I write like
H. P. Lovecraft
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2) The first chapter of Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley



I write like
James Joyce
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3) Hmm, maybe they're just not distinctive enough. How about The Knight's Tale from Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer



I write like
William Shakespeare
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Uh huh. Right.

4) Let's try someone who is actually like Shakespeare. So like Shakespeare in fact, that's he's often accused of writing some of the plays. Here's Marlowe's Edward II



I write like
James Joyce
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Really? Really?

5) Maybe it's just a Western thing. Let's try the first novel ever. Chapter 1 of The Tale of Genji



I write like
James Fenimore Cooper
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Umm. Yeah.

6) I think I may be detecting some bias here. How about poetry? How about Ryunosuke Akutagawa? I did both haikus on the page:



I write like
Margaret Atwood
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I write like
Vladimir Nabokov
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Right.

I think I'm done.