"What a tale we have been in, Mr Frodo, haven't we?" he said. "I wish I could hear it told." ...

But even while he spoke so, to keep fear away until the very last, his eyes strayed north, north into the eye of the wind, to where the sky far off was clear... 3/5

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind

all of this is basically a trojan horse for my sinking feeling right now that generative AI will be 'good enough' and that's...potentially a very bad outcome!