Genres that exist and the book covers
Well, I’ve decided to have fun creating fictional AI book covers. Of course, I had to start with romance novels. Remember, a good title, and author as well, always helps attribution.
//Mousterian Refers to Neanderthal tool technology.//
Well, I think that’s a bit rude. No one really knows what the Neanderthal language was (or even if it was). Maybe someone can get a promise. Probably not. In that way, maybe things weren’t really that different back then. Anyway, if you want to know, read the book!
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Well, then I moved on to the secret Denisovans. Today, we still have about 4% of our DNA from our reliable and well-known Neanderthals, but perhaps up to 10% from Denisovans in parts of East Asia and Polynesia. You are following me. So let’s see –
By this time, I was getting better with alteration.
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With such a head of steam under my belt // Sorry, but you know how it is //
How could I avoid this genre that I’ve heard people make a lot of money from self-publishing on Amazon? – from
And you have to be fair. People also imagine.
LOL – I didn’t ask the AI to put the stars and stripes on the guy’s sleeve, but it was a nice touch.
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OK! I was on a roll! Alien detective novel!
That bit is ugly, isn’t it? John Carpenter’s great film was, They live onin the training set? May be.
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Until now, because I really have no shame, I was thinking about magical realism (as if I wasn’t already going there) and Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Marquez’s work was all in Portuguese and set in his native Brazil, so I was also thinking (hinting, actually) to have a Brazilian connection. here we go –
But then I thought, oh, if you want to do a dinosaur novel, Wyoming has been more viable.
It’s a little light with a poor driver’s head, but geodes and flowers in the pickup bed? wow I explained magical realism in notation. Not bad for the AI’s weird little brain. I didn’t mention Jurassic Park, just Wyoming. Really!
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Well, my god, I was on a roll! I was still thinking about One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of my favorite novels. Do you know his amazing opening line?
Years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Bondia remembered the distant afternoon his father took him to explore the snow.
wow
Okay, so like I said, I was still on the subject.
Is there a real Leandro Los Lemons? I certainly hope not! But altruism is a lot of fun, isn’t it?
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But until now, I was thinking, genre-wise: Westerns!
The typewriter, in which the AI is immobile, reminded me of a factoid: the first novel, or perhaps a memoir, written on a typewriter was Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi, published in 1883.
What will he think now? I bet he will love it. Here’s another interesting fact about Mark Twain: When the Civil War broke out, he decided he wanted nothing to do with it, especially after being called to shoot his ass by some shoehorned farm boys from Arkansas, who had never owned a human, but whose rich mint jalep had been coordinated to die for protection by the souping cotton planter class. Their Wealth, and horror.
He fled the Nevada Territory. Finally, he made it all the way to Hawaii, in this part of his life. Really!
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OK! The artwork was fun to create, but, you see, the story becomes its own creative romp… so, still on the western kick and just enjoying the alliteration.
PS – If you need a streaming recommendation for tonight, and you’ve never seen Robert Redford’s epic Mountain Man, look no further. Jeremiah Johnson. My favorite scene is when he stumbles upon another mountain man, played by Will Gere, somewhere much higher in the Colorado Rockies. They are surrounded by snow at Will’s campsite. says one to the other (I forget which).
“What month do you think it is?”
“March. I think it’s March.”
OK! On Movin’…
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But before I go. I wanted to make things right:
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Do you know the real story? Cabeza de Vaca? He was part of a highly ill-fated expedition to Florida in 1527, which more or less ended. He, along with 3 others, was able to build a raft, and sail it from the Texas coast to Galveston Island, and then spent 8 years traveling throughout what is now the American Southwest as Medicine Man Visionary, etc., and finally made it back to Mexico City. I first learned about them from Ken Burns’ film series, The West, and have been hooked ever since.
He deserves something more:
People print AI, and rightly so, but I use it for my imagination.
you see
And here, some illusions don’t really matter. There is one that is not quite right. Native Americans didn’t actually get horses until the early 1600s. But what is the line at the top of the cuckoo’s nest?
“It didn’t really happen, but it’s true anyway.”
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OK! I recently watched season 3 of Tony Hillerman’s TV adaptation of some Navajo detective novels, Dark winds I was wondering well, what about a similar series for Zuni? The title refers to the Zuni creation story, where the twins ascend the 3 subterranean realms to eventually emerge into the fourth world, where the sun shines.
The author’s last name refers to the original Zuni Salt Lake. I hope none of Zuni’s brains. The Zuni have lived in the far west in what is now New Mexico since about 1300, just a few years after the Hopi certainly set up shop in Hopi. We should too.
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The Navajo have 4 Sacred Mountains. I love driving through the Navajo Nation and watching the radio announcers do it all. Again, I hope no one minds! – from
Again, if it was more accurate, it would be Hogan instead of Pueblos, but I’m just going to blame that on the AI. He tried anyway.
Makona Salt Lake, though, is much more doable than I first realized:
We should all be able to write like this. As real human beings with a vast history of where we come from,
And wherever we are going.
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My goodness, this has turned into an interesting article.
Of course, Japan had to be next!
And, of course
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Henri Hokusai Dos Passos turned out to be much more exciting than I first realized. The title is an homage to both Georgia O’Keefe and Mabel Dodge Lohan, who got him to move there. Mabel wrote a book, Taos Desert Edge.
If you are ever in Taos, i Recommend you stay on it Mabel Dodge Lohan Housejust a few blocks from the Plaza.
However…
Anyway, once again, enough for today! Hope you enjoyed.
~ John, wherever he is now.
Time is fluid, and imagination fades,
If you let it go.