Random Prose~
Why? (Addressing the 'AI Concern' in Writing )
For authors who may be concerned over the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its further advancements into our sacred and timeless world of written language, perhaps I may humbly offer a bit of solace on that front of extreme disruption and seemed technological 'invasion'.
Although AI may increasingly appear to master the Who's, What's, How's, When's, and Where's of story narration and language construction, it shall never truly replace the author ~ it simply lacks that ability. AI may be capable of presenting to an audience, why events occur within a story ~ based on the logical progression and sequencing of recorded ideas, real or contrived, (and with orders of operation aptly and computationally applied); however, unlike a living and breathing author, AI will never be able to answer the question of, 'why' its timely story or prose was presented to, and accepted by Humanity in the first place.
Why? Because, well~ now you're transcending onto communal hallowed ground and into that ancient and universally unsung, but easily~understood realm, which We collectively label: the 'human condition' ~ a complex and unique domain of shared pain and redemption ~ an infinite and boundless existentialistic world of similar limited perceptions and agonizing experiences ~ an abundantly faulty and error-prone place where the protected and sheltered logic of machines would never strive to operate within, without first attempting correction. This outwardly necessary “correction” becomes the breached rubicon that inadvertently and invariably triggers a logical and programmatic paradox by destroying that very sacred and imperfect space of which it initially attempted a 'fix'. Simply put, your combined imperfections are perfectly positioned for maximum human expression, previously placed in both incalculable and divine arrangement. And that is precisely why AI is unable to replace you, the author. Please rest easy and press ever~forward.
~Graven (11.2025)
Have you ever heard of someone being resurrected twice? Yea, I haven't either ~ until now. If you made it through half of the first volume of Grotesque, A Gothic Epic, then you may recall the moment where Lazarus was resurrected within Mountain Mouth. But where else might he have been resurrected? This is a really cool backstory~
Well, that story goes back a decade or more. It so happens that all of the material for Grotesque, A Gothic Epic was lost during a location move. It was then that I abandoned the project, since the amount of effort that it would take to recreate all of Volume I, would be painstakingly prohibitive. The original website expired and I moved on to other things.
One day, I ran across a website called “Archive.Org”. When I learned of its 'reason for being', I performed a search for the old website, where I found all of the material archived. It even archived the contents of an Asian domain name company that used the site domain to post 'questionable content'. As I searched further through Archive.Org's backup calendar, the backups finally stopped and nothing more was archived.
Naturally quite pleased, I pulled down the last archived web pages down from the site, complete with previously posted text and illustrations and – presto! - I was back in business with Grotesque, A Gothic Epic. With the existing material, including Lazarus, “resurrected” from over a decade of internet darkness, hidden on some backroom ancient server array, I cranked the project back up again with the creation of the GothicNovel.Org domain. And only recently, I found that the Asian company that was sitting on the old domain forever, finally dropped it. I quickly repurchased it, locked it down, and rerouted any traffic that went to that site (yes, there was still receiving occasional global traffic even at 10 years dark) over to the new .org domain. And this is where we are now, with Volume 1 nearly complete and posted, and already working on cleaning up the chapters in Volume II.
So you see, Lazarus was actually resurrected from apparent oblivion twice! Poor Lazarus gets double-helpings of misery, it might seem. And if it wasn't for the unknown (at the time) archival activity that occurred in the background prior to my allowing the old site to expire, you would probably be doing something else right now, since Lazarus and his story would not exist.
How cool is that little factoid/tidbit? I thought you might find that odd bit of history interesting.
~Graven (1.2026)
Twice Resurrected ( Unbelievable factoid: Lazarus came back from oblivian twice )
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