Siris

Talking with Nick about GPT-2, I mentioned that one of the things poets do is feel out the next easy word, so I thought I would talk about t...

Unction makes one's illness a sign of Christ's Passion, first for oneself and then for others. - to read Hume's Treatise as a ...

* Roger Scruton, Kitsch and the Modern Predicament . I discussed kitsch here recently , trying to situate the notion in a larger context. ...

A Castle Old and Grey by Alexander Anderson I never see a castle That is gaunt and grey and grim, But my thoughts at once go backward ...

The comedian Tim Conway died today. As he was perhaps the comedian who best understood how to use television as a medium, it seems fitting t...

This time giving Talk to Transformer openings of some of my poems. There are some charming expressions -- I like "A maiden of beauty, ...

Talk to Transformer gives a snippet of text generated from a prompt by GPT-2, which uses a large corpus of materials to predict by statisti...