“Isold X. Villarreal” or machine angst

Why does randomly generated Markov-chain spam make so much (poetic) sense?
From jxerdt@sibername.biz Thu Nov 23 02:15:30 2006
From: “Isold X. Villarreal” <jxerdt@sibername.biz>
Subject: stockpile part
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:13:36 +0200
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.4 tagged_above=-200.0 required=6.3 tests=BAYES_00,
HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP, HELO_DYNAMIC_HCC, HTML_30_40, HTML_MESSAGE, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL
X-Spam-Level: ****
It smells like roasting corn, raw sewage, fish sauce, frying hamburgers and exhaust. Hell of a night all around.
It’s ugly, preposterous and inhuman, interspersed with all-too-rare pockets of serenity and beauty.
” All this nonsense about “the violence is getting worse because they’re trying to influence our election. It sounds like the whooshing of cars, and if you close your eyes, you can delude yourself into believing they’re waves lapping at a beach.


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