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Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Anything to avoid Lowry...
In any event, I quite like Marquez, and this collection of short stories - vignettes - did not disappoint.
A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe
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...and Malcolm Lowry sits half-read on a shelf. I appreciate him, but, for the moment, not to my taste.
SO - Ann Radcliffe - I'm pretty sure I've read "The Castle of Udolpho", this didn't disappoint.
A Gothic Romance, with the usual variety of Star-crossed lovers, Ruined Castles, Estates, Monasteries, Convents and Dungeons (albeit poorly used...), caves, the rumor of ghosts, kindly governesses, evil fathers and stepmothers, Bandetti, convenient coincidences, mistaken identities, and the wrath of God plays out in the passions of the players.
If she didn't invent the genre she certainly perfected it, the quality of prose is fine, only the events - the story, is just that, a diversion to entertain, and at no point does the reader believe it. But that's a matter of taste...
Read up on her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Radcliffe
All of Us Strangers
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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A British film about a lonely London Screenwriter who goes to visit his childhood home and meets his deceased parents...
And a mysterious stranger.
A curious and contemporary take on the themes of ghosts, loss, loneliness and grief.
Good.
Others as well...
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And, reading content on Facebook - "real" content - presumably - one user has had enough of the CGI pictures, posts a picture, a nice house, how to tell? It bothers him that of all these posts very few seem to be real...
Of course, none of them are and most of the comments reflect that. AI fatigue has started and we've only just begun.
That said, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if an AI wrote the article complaining about superabundance of AI on Social Media...
Now, I've never posted on Facebook complaining of Facebook, and I can't help but wonder if this post is simply reinforcing a lot of other's user experience, or if it's a reaction to my discussing this issue with friends - because, it's no longer paranoid, just common sense, to acknowledge that your phone is always on and listening...
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