Brutus and Cassius, at the close of the scene about 2020

[greg-kennedy]

Could you give some more explanation on how this works? Is all the code in the browser or was it generated with some other tool? I see this in the news updates page:

• Sun Nov 29 2020 16:17 Brutus and Cassius, at the close of the scene: While you're waiting for Situation Normal to come out, you can enjoy the novel I just released as my NaNoGenMo project.
  Brutus and Cassius, at the close of the scene is the first English novel written in the Tamarian language. The data comes from a bot I was working on when I decided a) this bot was going to be a ton of work for almost no reward; b) corollary, I'm kind of done making bots. Works great as a NaNoGenMo though! It's really fun to read.

[leonardr]

Hi, Greg. I generated this NaNoGenMo novel ahead of time with a Python script; you can see the source code if you view source on the web page. However the real work was done ahead of time with a second script that pulled Tamarian sentences out of English-language books, plus some manual work on top of that cleaning up the data. That's how I generated the various data files that are used to generate the novel.