What is alarming is that I ran two samples of my writing, one a political editorial, the other an appreciative essay on a rare angling book, and both got the same result. My guess is that test is responding to my vocabulary.
Hat tip to Chico Kidd.

07 Nov 2013
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Karen Myers (the wife)
I’ve always told you your prose is purple.
I, on the other hand, come in as Ursula LeGuin, which is a hell of a compliment. (Don’t always like her soapboxes but that woman can write).
Karen Myers (the wife)
Hmmm, on second trial… My Ursula LeGuin was a dialog-heavy extract. For a description-heavy one, I came out as Margaret Mitchell.
Guess I need to work on my description.
boligat
I ran four and got four different results: Mark Twain, Cory Doctorow, Dan Brown and Charles Dickens. I know it says prose, but the last entry was a poem fragment.
Interesting. Does this mean I could be a speech writer for our current WH resident’s teleprompter? That way he could assume whatever personae he wants.
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