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A fortune-formatted list of Oblique Strategies

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##fortune-formatted Oblique Strategies

This is a strfile-formatted set of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies, ready for use with the fortune utility. I've also included Richard Diebenkorn's (much shorter) "notes to myself on beginning a painting".

Suggested usage is to install the fortune command via homebrew and put something like the following in your ~/.bash_profile or similar:

echo "Today's oblique strategy:"
fortune ~/obliqueMOTD/obliquestrategies ~/obliqueMOTD/diebenkorn_notes
echo ''

Contributions or fixes are welcome; just make sure to rerun strfile after any changes to the text files.

Known issues: some of the strategies were originally formatted multiline and were condensed somewhere along the way. strfile can handle multiline just fine, so those should be reformatted.

Totally untested on anything except the fortune I got from homebrew this morning. No license because none of this stuff is mine in the first place. My thanks to https://github.com/amonks/oblique-strategies-api for getting the strategies in plaintext to start.

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