Why is the idea of an algorithm knowing us better than we know ourselves so unsettling? I don't know, but I was hooked from the first paragraph. Beautiful, beautiful writing. The way you weave between your experience and your sister's experience, and the past and the present...this story made my skin prickle!
Thanks Sean! Those are lovely compliments. By the way, the book I was reading was Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, and the story with the dead lover was Moonlight Shadow, which was tacked into the end of the edition I was reading and don’t THINK it’s actually part of Kitchen. Two hours later was the system error. I still can’t quite get over it...
brilliant, I'm glad he wasn't dead, and I love his reply...
I have no answers, but the universe can have a strange sense of humour.
Why is the idea of an algorithm knowing us better than we know ourselves so unsettling? I don't know, but I was hooked from the first paragraph. Beautiful, beautiful writing. The way you weave between your experience and your sister's experience, and the past and the present...this story made my skin prickle!
Thanks Sean! Those are lovely compliments. By the way, the book I was reading was Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, and the story with the dead lover was Moonlight Shadow, which was tacked into the end of the edition I was reading and don’t THINK it’s actually part of Kitchen. Two hours later was the system error. I still can’t quite get over it...
Sometimes system glitches are uncanny. Yours feels to me like a squeaky chair.