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"...you’re immediately greeted by the Gutenberg Bible. But I wasn’t here for that, and my schedule was tight. I went straight for the elevators, where the famed Steinbeck Werewolf Novel was waiting for me on the second floor."

"ALL HIS DAYS (Anagrammed Lines)

Monday defuses wraiths.
Tuesday finds raw homes.
Wednesday is a shut form.
Thursday, winsome, fades.
Friday so muses the dawn....
   Saturday feeds on whims.
   Sunday feeds him to wars."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Night in July.

"A very different way of looking at our era would be as literary history, with the different genres competing with each other to most accurately map out the world, and with sci-fi winning in a landslide for the simple reason that the sci-fi acolytes bought up virtually the entirety of public space or, to put it more accurately, developed communicative nodes to connect people in new ways and then monopolized access to those spaces as opposed to turning them into a public service, and the people who emerged with total control over culture were nerds with the simple morality tales and wooden emotionality and technological specificity of the shlockiest sci-fi."

—Sam Kahn via

"...the nonfiction book about the effects of A.I. on truth included misattributed or fake quotes concocted by A.I."