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by ProllyInfamous
849 days ago
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I have only read the first quarter of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury; this is notoriously a "difficult book" to understand, particularly given that it takes an unreliable first-person POV, is anachronastic, and seems to be narrated by a mental invalid (and lacks normal punctuation, particularly quotemarks). ---- ...so I asked ChatGPT to help me understand the first chapter (80 pages). The chapter ends with the narrator being called "Maury," so I asked AI "is TS&tFury narrated by Maury?" It responded "no, it's Benjy" (which was initially more confusing than just reading Faulkner). But upon further questioning (without actually knowing, for certain, as reader), it turns out that it does arrive at [I presume correctly..?] the correct response, which is that Benjy IS Maury. ---- So while it was overall helpful, it took coaxing from a not-even-done-with book avid reader. I took the AI's last piece of advice, which was to purchase a human-authored companion reader for TS&tFury =P |
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