A slide from a group presentation/project I'm a member of appeared on the professor's blog.
http://bactra.org/weblog/843.html

The presentation was on our group's attempt to use a markov chain model to construct pseudo-Conrad text using the Heart Of Darkness as training text (i.e. the corpus).

If anyone's interested in seeing the code, here's a link to the project:
https://github.com/jasontc2/MarkovLanguage

The project is part of 36-350 (Statisitcal Computing) at CMU.
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/statcomp/