Last minute entry: Words In Collision

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Given two input files, this script takes each word from the first and combines the first half of it from the corresponding word from the second. It duplicates the spacing of the first input file.

Source: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2021/words-in-collision.py
Novel-length output: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2021/Thhe%20Retures%20of%20Sherlock%20Holmes.md

Example:

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