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"I often wonder what the future will look like without humans."

"The Toad (Le Crapaud)

A song in the airless night...
Moon, a plate of metallic light,
The spaces, a sombre green.

...A song: like a lively echo,
Buried beneath the bank, below...
–It’s silent: but there, unseen...

– A toad! – Oh, why such terror,
Near me, you steadfast soldier!
See it: shorn poet, wingless forever,
A nightingale in the mud... – Horror! –

...It sings – Horror! – Horror, why,
Surely you see its light-filled eye, shining alone? ...
No, it’s gone, cold, under its stone."

--Tristan Corbière tr A S Kline

Trying to Keep Up.

Maybe Perec can explain to me how to tell if i have won at Go.

"I asked GPT if it experienced qualia."