Has there ever been a short story comprised of nothing but original sentences?

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Sentences that one is sure have never been written or thought of before?

Could we start one?

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

have you outsourced your brain?

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, to a Taiwanese Brain Consultancy Conglemerate.

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Have we started yet?

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Possibly, either that or I'm suffering a mid-life Christmas.

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

How could you be sure that no one has ever thought of a sentence before? Possibly if you did a bit of a random thought association exercise you could produce something "original" but it probably wouldn't be terribly meaningful and a whole short story would be pushing it.

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

It'd be utterly and definitely pretentious, too.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

And probably French into the bargain.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Let's start with this:

Last night I dreamed I went to Mandalay again.

Seems original enough to me.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Comprised of" is grammatically incorrect. It should be either "composed of" or "comprising".

The two sentences above have no doubt been written many, many times before.

― a pedant writes..., Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

It was a stark and dormy night.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 3 of about 4 for "Last night I dreamed I went to Mandalay again". (0.43 seconds)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

"As the insect awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic Gregor Samsa."

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Would it be an "original" sentence if it were changed to "Last night I dreamt I went to Somerfield again"?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

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.on

― nala, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Wonder if "twice, up on a thyme" has ever been an opener before. But that would just be dumb. Who would sit on a herb?

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an ILXor in possession of a good thread must be in want of a parody.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me of that Fry & Laurie sketch...

Our language, Tiger, our language, hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of possible legitimate new ideas, so that I can say this sentence and be confident it has never been uttered before in the history of human communication: "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers."

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

"Comprised of" is grammatically incorrect. It should be either "composed of" or "comprising".

if we keep it grammatically incorrect we stand a better chance of it not having been written before (perhaps.. actually i ain't no sure about that)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

we should maybe start the story

"bees apple does having never gayly goldfish"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

thus to and gorge jam

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

pogo stick finder foley wolfish

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

when belong poo ram

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

that was a poem that was.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Licky licky doh doo om appelwurtzer.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Mieskala whenoffer parazoid deez're yer fogoglimg.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Ken -- And you did it all in three minutes so it can't be too hard then surely? Applause. But what does it mean? Actually, Gertrude Stein got away with actually publishing similar stuff ...

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Nakedeers runtom im glass's wendom.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

second ~~actually~~

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wickety-wackety spittoon me sat it sputtoon.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxpost when i get home i'm putting that to music. cryptic lyrics r where it's at

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

You should become a human beat-box! Cryptic lyrics convey a certain depth of sorts, mainly because no one else can understand them so think they refer to really deep metaphors beyond their own feeble comprehension ... or they just get really frustrated instead and think that it's shite made up in three minutes to be "original." ;-)

― salexander / sofia (salexander), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

Robert Pollard to thread

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Lewis Carroll to thread, too...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - "dr seuss plagiarist" - did not match any documents.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Edward Lear to thread

Surely it should make some sense though...

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

dangit i started googling sentences in a story i wrote, just out of curiosity, and not a single sentence got any results until the second paragraph.

I should have done something MORE ORIGINAL GODDAMNUT

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

It depends. Is Finnegans Wake a short story?

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like George Saunders could pull it off.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

The original is still the greatest.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

i think maybe this one: i was blindfolded and pushed down a flight of stairs
is it a short story though? it's kind of longish.

― Static Electricity (staticelectricity), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Look out, God, behind you!"

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hugge mir negendly.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

This is actually a mathematical problem, not a literary one. Y'know?

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

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