Dissociated Jekyll And Hyde 📖
I mentioned in passing that I wrote a version of Dissociated Press¹
You feed it some text and it returns you a mangled version that almost makes sense, but not quite. My implementation always begins at the beginning which helps for inputs that start with something recognisable. Project Gutenberg is a good place to get suitable texts. Here's what it did with "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man high in public estimation. It was not denied admittance; perhaps, in his heart, he preferred to speak to you, here, in this room, upon the countenance of Jekyll. At all hours of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. The hatred of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, returning both; “it’s a very interesting autograph.” There was a forgery. Not a bit of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently came back upon my mind that the servants were already used to the coming and going of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a comfortable morning doze. I was still rolling in through the house, where Bradshaw stared and drew back at
Drew back at what? We'll never know, because it stops after 150 words.
Footnote
1) Dissociated Press is the idea that if you take start with a little of the source text, then find places in the text where the last few words appear and choose one at random, taking the next few words from there.
Maybe I didn't explain very well. Here's what Wikipedia says.