And the Answer is...

Obsessive, that's what it is. Just have to keep on tweaking things, don't you? Then again, the ability to focus on one task is one of the things that makes a good programmer. Not that I think good programmers are necessarily that great to live with, unless you're another programmer.

I did end up writing a perl script to stitch morphemes into words, with random output (rather than exhaustive output). And I did manage to grab a bunch of these and plonk them as a line of dialogue into a story. Doesn't matter that I don't know what it meant, neither did the person who heard it. That, indeed, was the point.

But the thing is very jury-rigged, I don't really like it.

Ahhh

Just sent off the 8th version of the "Truth and Consequences" cover to Judith Proctor. Maybe I should say the 8th variation, as the whole thing is digital and the basic design has remained the same, I've just been tweaking it and plugging different images in to it. It's basically a composite of four different faces on an abstract background, and we haven't yet finalized which particular face images to use; none of them are perfect. But I think it's getting there.

It's nice to do something creative.