Apparently I write like David Foster Wallace...
Say what?
Oh, that David Foster Wallace.
Er.
Cool.
Now you go play with "I write like"
h/t Chad - who apparently has dissociative writing disorder or something...
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Every time I read David Foster Wallace, I think, that's just classic David Foster Wallace. Which is to say it's completely unexpected, novel, different from the way almost anyone else thinks, including David Foster Wallace the last time I read him.
Today is the anniversary of Charles Darwin's 197th birthday.
Lest it be said that I never say anything nice about anyone from Duke, let me second Dave's recommendation of Al Featherston's article about coaching consistency at the Duk
If you haven't had enough of Wallace and Darwin yet, head on over to the Beagle Project Blog where there is a guest post b
Kurt Vonnegut.
I'm flattered enough not to question whether this is connected to pasting German text.
Hmm. I also got David Foster Wallace.
Hmm depending upon what I put in I get David Foster Wallace and Harry Harrison (fiction), Arthur Clarke (article about monkeys in space) and most disturbingly Kurt Vonnegut for allegedly funny article about bumping into Richard Dawkins in a thunderstorm.
Isaac Asimov or James Joyce !
Wow, it is hard to think of more disparate styles than Asimov and Joyce (at least ones that'd fit into a US based web form).
I tried different pieces of writing also:
a summary paragraph for a NASA proposal gave me A.C. Clarke.
That is good.
A sample paragraph from an intro to a highly cited paper game me Edgar Allan Poe.
Hmm...
I also get a mixture depending what text I enter. I seem to write papers like Arthur C. Clarke, which is a good thing. But the introduction to my most recent NASA proposal sounds like Douglas Adams, not necessarily a good result. I also fed in a referee report, which their analyzer identified as Dan Brown (since the authors aren't supposed to know who I am, getting a different result from my public writing is probably OK, but I should worry if I start writing papers/proposals like Brown).
Well, Edgar Allen Poe for my scientific writing (??)
But Chuck Palahniuk for a blog post I had last year...
I got David Foster Wallace with the first piece I submitted. I also got Charles Dickens, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, and -egads!- Stephanie Meyer (ironically, for a critique I wrote of "Twilight").