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Her eyes seemed to scan an unseen horizon as if daring it to contest her words. They had seen decades come and go, fads morph into nostalgia, and the trivial be elevated to the profound.

The room around her—a hodgepodge of vinyl records, old movie posters, and furniture that screamed “thrift store chic”—only added to the ambiance of cultured decay. It was as if she and the room were in a symbiotic relationship, both worn but defiant, aesthetically disheveled but fundamentally strong.

“Ah, life,” she mused to herself, “where the mundane and the magnificent dance in the gray area of absurdity.” And with that, she took a sip of her overpriced, artisanal gin, as if toasting to the glorious contradiction that is existence.




What is this from?

If this thread from the top-level comment is full of references, I’m not getting it.


It is entirely generated with GPT-4, given the original parent text and asked to continue it in the same style.


I think I have some books to read.

I haven't laid hold of truly good sci-fi in a long time.


The text I posted was 100% AI-generated (GPT4) when asked to continue the previous text




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