Q: Where does the plaintext come from?
A: Plantext is taken in segments from the over 500,000 words of many classical works including:
- The Great Learning by Confucius
- The Iliad by Homer written 800 B.C.E translated by Samuel Butler
- Principal Doctrines by Epicurus
- The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar translated by W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn
- The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius written 167 A.C.E. translated by George Long
- The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam written 1120 A.C.E.
- The Republic by Plato written 360 B.C.E translated by Benjamin Jowett
- The Elements by Euclid
as well as poems by:
- Robert Frost
- William Shakespeare
- Charles Bukowski
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Walt Whitman
- William Butler Yeats