[FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

[Frank Wimberly]

I read Blood Meridian 10 or 15 years ago and I haven't read another novel
since then.


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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

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Santa Fe, NM

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 8:48 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM Santafe <desmith at santafe.edu> wrote:
>
>> God the Cormac priming is really bad.  Can’t write in ones own voice
>> afterward, nor of course in his.
>
>
> On God's Voice in Cormac's voice:
>
>
> The expriest shook his head. Oh it may be the Lord's way of showin how
> little store he sets by the learned. Whatever could it mean to one who
> knows all? He's an uncommon love for the common man and godly wisdom
> resides in the least of things so that it may well be that the voice of the
> Almighty speaks most profoundly in such beings as lives in silence
> themselves.
> He watched the kid. For let it go how it will, he said, God speaks in the
> least of creatures.
> The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest,
> watching, his head slightly cocked, said: No man is give leave of that
> voice.
> The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work.
> I aint heard no voice, he said.
> When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life.
> At night, said Tobin, when the horses are grazing and the company is
> asleep, who hears them grazing?
> Don't nobody hear them if they're asleep.
> Aye. And if they cease their grazing who is it that wakes?
> Every man.
> Aye, said the priest. Every man
>
> from Chapter 10, Blood Meridian
>
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