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Writing done entirely by AIs is currently pretty awful, but I'm sure that it will get better over time. There was a prof on Twitter (can't find the tweet now) who assigned his clas…

The problem is that moderation doesn't scale. Newspapers, TV, radio, film all evolved to have or to conform to some kind of standards and practices department, which played well wi…

There are also large, structural similarities across the plays and poems that suggest a single authorship; that 'not very good' poetry has interests and stylistic tics in common wi…

Hey this is a former coworker of yours from GU back in the day. Nice post! Hope you're doing well and congrats on the IIe. I grew up coding on one of these as well. :)

Amateur Shakespearean here. I've often wondered why these statistical approaches don't look for stylistic signatures. For instance, several plays are linked by their use of doubles…

I've been thinking about this and Shakespeare's King Lear may be an example of this as well.

https://theopolisinstitute.com/the-chiastic-structure-of-lor...

I don't think that I can correct the original post at this point, but I meant "episodes" not "books."

That's interesting, where can I read more about this?

Yes, this is the order of the journey, not the book order.

You might have? Odysseus chooses Scylla, but then is punished by Zeus after his crew slaughters the Oxen of the Sun; his ship is destroyed and he is sent on its timbers back to Cha…

Also in Milton's Paradise Lost, I believe.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey#Textual_history

Oh, yeah, we don't even have a canonical version of _Hamlet_, let alone for oral poems from the 8th century BC.

Yep, all of the "wine-dark sea"s and "rosy-fingered dawn"s might have worked as filler while the poet was queueing up the next part of the narrative.

I think that the oration of these poems might be akin to jazz playing, where a musician knows the broad, basic structure of a work and fills it in with improvisation.

This is how the books of the Odyssey are structured: TROY ---- 1. Kikones (innocent city is ambushed) 2. Lotus Eaters (temptation, delay) 3. Cyclops (monster) 4. Aeolus (greedy cre…

The "choose one" meme, but with "stay informed" and "stay sane."

_In the Swarm_ by Byung-Chul Han does a good job explaining why this happened. In retrospect, it's perhaps more of a miracle that we got a decade or two of relatively low toxicity …

Most of Infinite Jest is highly indebted to Wittgenstein's Mistress. Markson's is the better novel.