You Will Thank Me as Fast as You Thank a Werewolf

by B.J. Best profile

Surreal
2020

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Like being in the tornado from the Wizard of Oz, November 9, 2020
by Dawn Sueoka
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I enjoyed this, and was content to let the music wash over me, and the associations cohere and dissolve as I clicked through the story. It reminded me of my weirdo MFA program, which I really enjoyed. There is a flatness or generic-ness to the references--fields, tornadoes, school, parents, tv, birds, God, cigarettes--that became interesting when they were juxtaposed in such odd ways. I did find myself wanting a little more variety or tension. I don't know anything about GPT-2, but I wonder what would happen if different seeds or corpora (like with different styles of writing, or period-specific cultural references, or references to a specific place) were used within the same piece to modulate the tone a little bit more.

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