Reading Matter
Detlev FischerReading Matter reflects on one hundred novels first published in 1982. It is also the title of an unpublished novel using exclusively sentences from that set of novels.
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I write re-using sentences from other books. My texts grow from the inside out as sentences I read resonate and then become worked into the growing body of text. I am not using LLMs.
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