Fifty Ways to Leave Your Larva
Example 71
★We can use these substitutions to put together fairly complicated variations within a single piece of text:
"Fifty Ways to Leave Your Larva"
The Beekeeper's Palace is a room. Wasp is a woman in the palace. Drone is a man in the palace.
Instead of kissing someone:
say "'[denial], [insult]! [boast]!'";
In this context, [denial] is understood to refer to the denial property of the noun -- but we could spell it out with "denial of the noun" if we wanted to.
A person has some text called denial. The denial of a person is usually "Stand back". The denial of Drone is "You forget yourself"
A person has some text called insult. The insult of a person is usually "Grasshopper". The insult of Wasp is "Larva".
A person has some text called boast. The boast of a person is usually "I am ferocious". The boast of Drone is "I have ferocious allies".
And then it would be trivial to insert further rules using these responses:
Instead of attacking someone:
say "'Get away, [insult]!'"
Test me with "kiss wasp / hit wasp / hit drone / kiss drone".
Test me with "kiss wasp / hit wasp / hit drone / kiss drone".
Beekeeper's Palace
You can see Wasp and Drone here.
>(Testing.)
>[1] kiss wasp
"Stand back, Larva! I am ferocious!"
>[2] hit wasp
"Get away, Larva!"
>[3] hit drone
"Get away, Grasshopper!"
>[4] kiss drone
"You forget yourself, Grasshopper! I have ferocious allies!"
You can see Wasp and Drone here.
>(Testing.)
>[1] kiss wasp
"Stand back, Larva! I am ferocious!"
>[2] hit wasp
"Get away, Larva!"
>[3] hit drone
"Get away, Grasshopper!"
>[4] kiss drone
"You forget yourself, Grasshopper! I have ferocious allies!"