Exploring the Limits of the Self: Birth and Death in the Writing of Jacques Ferron
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Abstract
irth and death are inseparable and recurring themes in Jacques Ferron's work. As a physician, the author had an intimate knowledge of life's beginning and of its end. He saw the births he attended as privileged moments in his practice, and as a writer, he would draw on his experience of both birth and death. In this paper, we will show how the doctor goes beyond his clinical experience of these two events and attempts to invest them with meaning. We will focus on three very personal texts: "Credit Due" ("La Crance"), from the book Quince Jam, 1 in which Jacques Ferron stages his own birth, The Cart (La Charrette), 2 a fantastic novel about the death of its own narrator, who could be the author himself; and "Les deux lys," 3 Ferron's very last text, a testament in which the author, once again, faces death while returning to his own roots, to the beginning of it all, the point where, for him, everything begins.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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