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Why We Write and Language Models with Maggie Appleton
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
The Dangers of Writing a Novel
I think it was kind of intended to move away from a type of criticism that was happening in the 19th century, early 20th century. We have lots of cases where an author's personal life like Celine's for example totally influenced the way that we read his text and think about his text right. And this does the author thing. So I think it is like a balancing act but I see what you mean that this is like a total swing way but against that mattering at all right. Yeah there's a little bit of a danger too if everyone thinking it sincerely is the death of the author like there is no author and yet there kind of isn't author in the sense that
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