Tag: James S. Lee

  • Looking for Faces in Flowers During the Pandemic

    Looking for Faces in Flowers During the Pandemic

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    The flowers of Manhattan kept me sane during the pandemic. Over the 5 months of the lockdown and gradual re-opening of New York City, they were my substitute for company, and I enjoyed myself (as much as one could during the quarantine) by taking portraits of them.  Over this time, I learned a bit about…

  • Borges’s Eleven

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    When ChatGPT was first made public, I amused myself by asking it to combine the styles of disparate authors. I had just finished reading Ficciones, so I asked ChatGPT to rewrite popular films in Borges’s cerebral voice. The mental image of Borges reworking Star Wars—carefully imbuing it with ideas of the infinite, mirrors, and mazes—was…