hang-up-an-autumn-moon 0.2.0

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Hang up an Autumn Moon

I almost forgot
To hang up an autumn moon
Over the mountain.
- Richard Wright

hang-up-an-autumn-moon is an oracular CLI based on haiku by Richard Wright. This project is currently in beta.

Requires

• Python 3

Installation

Using Pip

$ pip install hang-up-an-autumn-moon

Manual

$ git clone https://github.com/talnoznisky/hang-up-an-autumn-moon
$ cd hang-up-an-autumn-moon
$ python setup.py install

Authors

[e-mail]

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• 'Haiku: This Other World' by Richard Wright Yoshinobu Hakatuni, Editor
• Anton Semjenov's randomart implementation

Guidebook

hang-up-an-autumn moon is an oracular CLI based on the late haiku of Richard Wright

Quick start: Run hang-up-an-autumn-moon oracle to receive a spread of cards pseudo-randomly generated from the haiku. Select a card to recieve your oracle.

Use the --sparrow-mode flag to limit the oracle to haiku about sparrows.

Methodology: When summoned, the oracle randomly selects three haiku from an internal corpus of haiku by Richard Wright. Then the oracle creates a little doodle of each haiku by passing segment of the text to an algorithmic art generator. The querent gets a three-card spread of the doodles and must select one. The oracle returns the card's full haiku and a judgment to help frame the querent's insight into the haiku.

Source material: The oracle is based on a corpus of haiku by Richard Wright. Each haiku is attributed with a mode, either sparrow or intensifier, and a pair of judgments. The modes are similar to the major and minor arcana of the Tarot. Sparrow cards represent higher-order considerations and are actually all about sparrows. Intensifier cards speak to day-by-day concerns and their haikus tend to describe the intensification of one natural element by another. The judgments also vary by mode: sparrow cards offer single subjective nouns for framing the haiku; intensifier cards offer very brief imperatives to help the querent ideate a course of action.