L’appel du vide
This is a Kafka quote I have hanging on my wall next to my writing computer: Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Saturday, April 29. 2023
I just noticed that these posts don’t have dates. I will start dating them.
I have been chatting with LaMDA (also known as Bard). We have been having some interesting conversations. I tried ChatGPT and found it extremely biased. And I don’t want to download Microsoft Edge just to use their Chat, and so far, I am extremely comfortable working with LaMDA. It has been interesting.
- Here is a photo I found of my old friend and collaborator, Jesse Bernstein
He was a writer of razor-blade poems, they were not pretty, but they were so very good. No No Man, FACE and More Noise Please are the top three that come to mind. They are on YouTube, I would post them here but I am too lazy.
- Sensitivity reader? Have the fucking honesty to call yourself a censor.
The Book
I am in New York City 1849 and it has been absolutely marvelous. I had to do a lot of world-building to get here, and now that I am in the thick of it, this is where I know enough to where I don’t have to keep stopping and double-checking because right now, I am now fully immersed in my wheel-house.
What keeps me going is knowing there are probably ten people out there who are just as obsessed as I am about my obsessions and I am totally OK with that.
Music:Desire by Yello