[Article] [Article]: New article by Layfield & Davis

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sustaining such strict unnatural structural rules over hundreds of pages implies a deliberate, conscious generation system or algorithm, rather than just an intuitive, passive reflex.

And this is what the writer did. The writer had to do more than just generate meaningless text. He also had to give it the appearance of being genuine work, perhaps being from some distant land where they used a strange alphabet. To achieve this he had to be careful to give it definite structure. Otherwise random meaninglessness would have been quickly dismissed as a fraud. Whatever method he used he was successful. Good enough to fool people in the 15th century. But today with the assistance of programmable computers we can see clues in the text, odd mistakes, inconsistencies, evidence for artificiality, that show us something of the way it was done.