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February 7, 2015 6:24 PM   Subscribe

Dagny Of Gor; or, what happens when Atlas Shrugged meets the works of John Norman.
posted by acb (18 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Oh man, I was hoping for something closer to Ayn Rand's Lord of the Rings, rather than a Markov chain.

I mean, it's a perfectly nice Markov chain, if you're into that sort of thing.
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 6:38 PM on February 7, 2015 [3 favorites]


It's like...like MRAs gone Dadaist.
posted by Beethoven's Sith at 6:38 PM on February 7, 2015


"Then I saw male slaves thrusting a cart filled with tears."
posted by Joe in Australia at 6:46 PM on February 7, 2015


That's some fine Markoving. (Is that a word? If not, it will be soon thanks to the proliferation of Markov twitter-bots. The future is weird.)
posted by rmd1023 at 6:46 PM on February 7, 2015


Markov chain? Pshaw. This is a disappointingly simple hack. I was hoping for a novella written by someone driven half-mad by their too-intimate knowledge of both source materials.
posted by localroger at 7:29 PM on February 7, 2015 [13 favorites]


On reflection I suppose that on Gor Markov chains might be considered suitable implements of restraint.
posted by localroger at 7:36 PM on February 7, 2015 [12 favorites]


Sorry, no, not clicking that link.

I have a soul. A damaged soul, sure, but I have one.
posted by eriko at 7:48 PM on February 7, 2015 [7 favorites]


I got a hold of John Norman's Gor books around age thirteen. I can't imagine how screwed up I'd be if I'd read Rand at that age too.
posted by BrotherCaine at 8:30 PM on February 7, 2015 [4 favorites]


Is there really that much difference? Rand: "women want to be raped by strong, superior men". (see not just Atlas Shrugged but also The Fountainhead.) Rand's rapey subtext is one of the reasons she's always skeeved me out, quite apart from her terrible tautological "philosophy" ("A is A because A is A") and reactionary neo-feudal economic ideas.
posted by Pseudonymous Cognomen at 9:23 PM on February 7, 2015 [3 favorites]


Rand's rapey subtext

In Gor it's not much of a subtext.
posted by Dip Flash at 9:35 PM on February 7, 2015


This is weird, all right, but for Markov LOLs I prefer @ErowidRecruiter, pointed out today by a friend: "Best use of a Markov chain I've seen in a while: a Twitter mashup of recruiter emails and Erowid trip reports: https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter" [/derail]
posted by FrauMaschine at 1:50 AM on February 8, 2015 [3 favorites]


FrauMaschine, Erowid recruiter's been posted here already. It is great, of course.
posted by ambrosen at 2:16 AM on February 8, 2015 [2 favorites]


In Gor it's not much of a subtext.

More of a domtext, would you say?
posted by stebulus at 4:30 AM on February 8, 2015 [7 favorites]


> ("A is A because A is A")

If only there weren't so many people who furiously deny it.
posted by jfuller at 6:24 AM on February 8, 2015 [1 favorite]


Honestly I'd prefer people just never referred to Ayn Rand, deeply uninteresting as she is.
posted by Segundus at 6:29 AM on February 8, 2015


Yeah. You'd hope that something gross and something gross might end up in some sort of clash of contrasting grossness but this was just gross. Did like Ayn Rands LOTR though.
posted by glasseyes at 6:33 AM on February 8, 2015


Judging by what I read in the papers, it's her world now. We've just been mysteriously transported there.
posted by sneebler at 7:32 AM on February 8, 2015


Needs more coal baron Overlords.
posted by benzenedream at 10:27 AM on February 8, 2015


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