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“This Lady, of plaster and wood and paint, is one of the strong ecological factors of the town of Loreto, and not to know her and her strength is to fail to know Loreto. One could not ignore a granite monolith in the path of the waves. Such a rock, breaking the rushing waters, would have an effect on animal distribution radiating in circles like a dropped stone in a pool. So has this plaster Lady a powerful effect on the deep black water of the human spirit. She may disappear and her name be lost, as the Magna Mater, as Isis, have disappeared. But something very like her will take her place, and the longings which created her will find somewhere in the world a similar altar on which to pour their force. No matter what her name is, Artemis, or Venus, or the girl behind a Woolworth counter vaguely remembered, she is as eternal as our species, and we will continue to manufacture her as long as we survive.”

– John Steinbeck, 

Sea of Cortez, p. 175 – 176, (1941)

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“The difference between writing and editing is like the difference between writing and reading.

Reading is enormously important. Obviously, it closes the gaps of our ignorance and expands our knowledge, but it does so through the language of others; their words, their sentences, their narratives and arguments.

Editing, too, begins with the language of someone else in the case of ChatGPT, something else. Of course, to some extent, writing is editing, too. We inherit our language and its rules from culture from the past. We express ourselves through a system that we didn’t invent, but that system is so infinitely flexible that we can use it to create structures of our own.

Language is how human beings understand themselves and the world. But writing is how we understand uniquely. Not to write is to live according to the language of others. Or worse, to live through edits, tweaks, and embellishments to language generated by an overconfident AI chatbot.”

- Evan Puschak, The Nerdwriter

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