This probably goes without saying, but to analyze why the “easy” version feels so shit. It loses information. A book transformed in this way would be a different book.
Narrator no longer identifies youth with vulnerability
The father’s statement is no longer advice. It could just be him saying “ligma”
The visual metaphor of physically inspecting a thought-object is lost
And they’ll try to claim that it’s considered “fair use transformation” under copyright law, the joke ass Supreme Court will hand them a win and the United States will become blanketed in datacenters as a million grifters try to set up their own unnecessary LLMs in order to get illiterate dumbasses to sign up for subscriptions they hope they forget to cancel
This probably goes without saying, but to analyze why the “easy” version feels so shit. It loses information. A book transformed in this way would be a different book.
“Ligma balls, son” would explain narrator daddy issues
And they’ll try to claim that it’s considered “fair use transformation” under copyright law, the joke ass Supreme Court will hand them a win and the United States will become blanketed in datacenters as a million grifters try to set up their own unnecessary LLMs in order to get illiterate dumbasses to sign up for subscriptions they hope they forget to cancel