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The Fallacy of AI Functionality.

“In Sappho’s poem, her addresses to gods are orderly, perfect poetic products, but the way—and this is the magic of fragments—the way that poem breaks off leads into a thought that can’t ever be apprehended. There is the space where a thought would be, but which you can’t get hold of. I love that space. It’s the reason I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought would be if it were fully worked out, it wouldn’t be as good as the suggestion of a thought that the space gives you. Nothing fully worked out could be so arresting, so spooky.”

– Anne Carson, “The Art of Poetry N° 88”, The Paris Review, Issue 171, Fall 2004 via @andrewgallix via @mjohnharrison

"Because of its realistic extrapolation and ironic undercutting, 334 is also sometimes described as dystopian, but its 2021 is blessedly decent compared to our own timeline."

“I held it so tight that I lost it
Said the Child of the Butterfly
Of many a vaster Capture
That is the Elegy -”

–@DickinsonMuseum (via @JoyceCarolOates)

Perfect Loops.