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And thank you for it. God. Or world. Whoever it was gave it to me, I humbly thank you,
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
The poet W. H. Auden once wrote, “When one thinks of the attention that a great poem demands, there is something frivolous about the notion of spending every day with one. Masterpieces should be kept for High Holidays of the Spirit”—for our own personal Christmases and Easters, not for any old Wednesday.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
If writing amounted to, as Walter Ong once put it, the technologizing of the word (and print its mechanization), then large language models amount to the mathematization of the word.
Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action
Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action
L. M. Sacasas
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