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"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"
—it is the “narraton particles” emitted from the Oort Cloud that explain the capacity of a certain well-known terrestrial species for telling stories, or in other words for presenting as true what is in fact false.
–"Back from the Oort Cloud: An Interview with JSR in PLOOI Magazine,
อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach
Ao translates as bay and Nang, princess. Railay comes from a Malay word meaning rice-producing.
Exploring the environs, forgoing the fondue, sitting beach-side into the sunset:
then electricity:
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snaps of ventilated cars and obligatory cats:
the loudest longtail
Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga
1996 in Spanish
2015 in English George Henson's translation
although, the following is Stuart Cooke's translation:
... a simple description, without additions, without delays, echoes or shadows, fatally reduces the power of the story, converts it into a mere anecdote—something vulgar, basically. Always, from the very