My initial instinct was to do this literally - and I've seen some beautiful creations that have come about through that method - but I let the idea marinate for a while and came up with a different plan, partly because I didn't feel like I'd have enough time and partly because I didn't actually want to hunt for a book I felt okay destroying.
Instead, I recalled a technique I'd utilized in college: found poetry. So I went to Project Gutenberg online and found a book entitled How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, originally published in 1921 and now in the public domain. I pulled out and reorganized phrases directly from the text, making very few amendments, which are noted in brackets ([ ]). Even the title of the poem is a section heading.
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