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Facebook: More AI Generated Nonsense...
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None of it good, but some of it entertaining. I'm just screenshotting it as it comes up, there are too many similar feeds on my Facebook.
Now, the "Account" I pulled this one from was "Colorado Geology", so - naturally of interest to me.
But, unfortunately, that crystal beach doesn't exist, never did, and if it did it sure in the hell wouldn't be in Colorado with that Ocean right behind it...
When Ed Anger Became America...
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I mean, I've been missing the days of quality journalism, Facebook, CNN, BBC, they can't deliver.
And I hearken back to the good 'ole days of Ed Anger and the "Weekly World News", which, for the time, seemed rather low-brow, all those aliens, Bat-Boy and Elvis sightings, and who would have thought the day would come when his views would be considered laughably "centrist".
This should be on a Tee Shirt. "I miss the compassionately informed reason and morality of Ed Anger". Or "I'm still mourning the death of quality, well balanced journalism" on a page-header with Bat-Boy or Elvis or maybe even Donald Trump.
Anyways, that's where we are at the moment.
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
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