Octavia

What: "Octavia" is an experimental epistolary interactive fiction that can be completed in about 5 minutes. How: I took the complete texts of Billy Budd by Herman Melville (1924) and Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman (1910) and ran them continuously through a Markov chain sentence remixer. From hundreds of iterations, I then curated fragments and phrases that I found interesting, and revised them to fit into an octave poem form. You and I write the letter together, and Melville, Goldman...