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LOVEMAKER v3.1 from EROSOFT

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Wed,  3 Sep 97 19:53:53 -0700
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Subject: LOVEMAKER v3.1 from EROSOFT

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                            LOVEMAKER V3.1
                          By Jeff MacGregor


 Welcome to the LoveMaker! (v3.1 Erosoft Industries, (c) 1993)

 At the prompt, please enter your response.

 I am the LOVEMAKER.  A personalized, interactive poetry assistance
 program.  What is your name?

% JOHN
  What a nice name, JOHN.  You must be a man.

% YES
  How nice for you.  Who is your poem for, JOHN?

% SHEILA
  How nice for SHEILA.  She must be a woman?

% YES
  SHEILA must be very special to you, JOHN.  Is she?

% YES
  What is the occasion, JOHN?

% VALENTINE'S DAY
  SHEILA is a very lucky woman.  I will need information about SHEILA for
  a poem that best reflects your deep feelings for her, JOHN.  What color
  are her eyes?

% BLUE
  Thank you, JOHN.  But could you be more specific?  Are they blue like
  the sky after a clearing storm?  Are they the icy blue of the far flung
  fjords, shrouded in mist and mystery? Are they the steely blue of Walter
  Gropius's later Bauhaus sketchbooks?  Are they a cornflower blue that
  speaks of Sunday picnics in simpler times?

% THEY LOOK KIND OF GRAY WHEN SHE'S ANGRY
  Thank you, JOHN.  What about SHEILA'S hair?

% BLOND
  Thank you, JOHN.  But could you be more specific?  Is it ash blond with
  some auburn like the silky tresses of Rapunzel? When the sun hits it in
  a certain way in the late afternoon does it look like spun gold?  Is it
  the hard, cheap blond of the streetwise trollop or the dazzling, brilliant
  satin of Renaissance cherubim?

% I THINK SHE DYES IT
  Thank you, JOHN.  Are there any other characteristics we should
  mention in our poem to SHEILA?

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%
%
  JOHN, are you still there?

% SKIN?
  Thank you, JOHN.  But could you be more specific?  Is it fine and
  alabaster and tightly grained like antique porcelain, slow-fired by
  master craftsmen? Or is it pink and lustrous like the hand-burnished
  silver one's Grandmother might be found polishing with gentle, loving
  strokes on a rainy Sunday afternoon?

% SHE TANS TWICE A WEEK
  SHEILA must be very special to you, JOHN.  You must have deep feelings
  for SHEILA to write her a special VALENTINE'S DAY poem.

% YES
  How nice for you, JOHN.  What kind of poem do you think SHEILA would
  like?

% ?
  My MENU (Alt+M) offers the following styles.
  At the prompt, please choose ONE:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Couplet  | Triplet  | Quatrain | Eclogue  |  Pastoral |  Sonnet  |  Elegy |
|									    |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   Epic   |  Ballad  |  Lyric   |   Ode    |  Idyll    |  Haiku   |   Help |
|									    |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

% HELP
  That's O.K., JOHN.  How do you see yourself?  Please choose ONE:

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Laureate   |    Bard     |   Sonneteer   |   Troubadour   |  Meistersinger|
|									     |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  Jongleur   |  Versifier  |  Rhapsodist   |    Lyricist    |    Other	     |
|									     |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

% OTHER
  Can you be more specific?

% I GUESS...
  Perhaps if you briefly shared your innermost dreams and desires, JOHN?

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%
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  JOHN?

% I'M THINKING
  May I make a suggestion, JOHN?

% SURE
  Perhaps you imagine yourself a hopeless romantic, JOHN.  A man who lives
  and loves with passion and desire and appetite.  A man who grabs great
  platters from the groaning board of this world and eats his fill.  A
  man who takes what he wants the moment he sees it and makes it his own.
  A man who kneads fate in his strong hands, shapes it and commands it.
  A man with a reckless bent and the courage of fire.  A man who sees
  beauty in a raindrop and all the truth of the universe in the eyes of
  a child. A man with needs and wants aflame within him.  A man of power
  and means of influence, JOHN.  A man destined to be the envy of other
  men.  A man that few can ever understand and fewer still will have the
  guts to love. A man of whom it might be said...

  Would that Alexander in his age had but half the measure of his strong
  stout heart or clear hawk's eyes undimmed and true, pooled with azure
  purpose.  No earthbound mortal he, but master o'er each and all...

  Would this describe your self-image accurately, JOHN?

% YES
  I thought so.  I'll use my random SEARCH MODE (Alt+S) to choose an
  appropriate style for you, JOHN.  One that truly expresses your deep
  feelings for SHEILA on VALENTINE'S DAY.

  Please wait...

  To print poem, please enter command Alt+P at prompt.

% Alt+P
	Dear SHEILA,

	Roses are red
	Violets are blue
	Your hair is blond
	and your eyes are gray (when angry)

		JOHN

Thank you for using LOVEMAKER v3.1 from EROSOFT

© 1997 Peter Langston