RoadKingLarry:
"I gave it a big sample of Louis L'Amour and it came back with Margaret Mitchell."
Not much actual information as to how it works in this test, but I figured I'd post it and save someone else the trouble:
Gone with the wind selection 1:
As he lounged up the walk, hand on holster, beady little eyes
glancing to right and left, a kaleidoscope of jumbled pictures spun
in her mind, stories Aunt Pittypat had whispered of attacks on
unprotected women, throat cuttings, houses burned over the heads of
dying women, children bayoneted because they cried, all of the
unspeakable horrors that lay bound up in the name of "Yankee."
Margaret Mitchell --got it!
Gone with the wind selection 2 (The very next paragraph):
Her first terrified impulse was to hide in the closet, crawl under
the bed, fly down the back stairs and run screaming to the swamp,
anything to escape him. Then she heard his cautious feet on the
front steps and his stealthy tread as he entered the hall and she
knew that escape was cut off. Too cold with fear to move, she
heard his progress from room to room downstairs, his steps growing
louder and bolder as he discovered no one. Now he was in the
dining room and in a moment he would walk out into the kitchen.
Got it again! (Margaret Mitchell)
Short selection from a later paragraph:
Quickly and noiselessly, she ran into the
upper hall and down the stairs, steadying herself on the banisters
with one hand and holding the pistol close to her thigh in the
folds of her skirt.
Got it again.
Gonna try to fool it with subject matter. One sentence, a few paragraphs later, when she shoots the intruder:
Like lightning, she shoved her weapon over the banisters and into
the startled bearded face.
Got it once more.
The rest of that paragraph:
Before he could even fumble at his belt, she pulled the trigger. The back kick of the pistol made her reel, as the roar of the explosion filled her ears and the acrid smoke stung her nostrils.
Got it again.
OK, tried to fool it with different subject matters, but I think once you get a hit on Margaret Mitchell, it sort of sticks it in a"favorite searches" queue or something, and knows where to look, so it pulls it up right away. And I didn't realize it at first, but the character name, "Aunt Pittypat" in the very first selection might have been a dead giveaway.
So my 'speriment with putting violent stuff in it (as opposed to "girly" stuff) did not fool it.
Is Louis L'Amour really a pen name of Margaret Mitchell? :) AFAIK, she never wrote another book under her own name.
Oh well, at least it was gun-related --concealed carry for women. :)
FWIW,
Terry, 230RN
Footnote
The "pistol" was a cap and ball single shot (similar physically to the typical dueling pistol of the time) that Charles, her husband, had left loaded with her in Atlanta. But its sounds like it was some kind of miitary issue gun. Never been able to determine what it actually was: "She fumbled in the leather box that hung on the wall below his saber and brought out a cap. She slipped it into place with a hand that did not shake."
