Bibliographic record
Abstract
George Woodcock, the prolific Canadian author and critic, has declared Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano^ is the finest work of fiction ever written in Canada.2 On this point, Lowry was fond of quot? ing from the Encyclopaedia Britannica for 1948: . . the year [1947] produced no new voice as commanding as of the Canadian, Malcolm Lowry, in Under the Volcano, to presage a major movement among younger writers of He could write to his older brother Stuart Lowry in 1950: I have done more for Canadian literatures than any liv? ing Canadian. . . .3 He added in the same letter, echoing Robert Frost, he and Margerie now consider Canada and [our] fishermen's shack home [which is] the place where, when they have to, they take you in. To his friends, however, Lowry was inclined to anguish over Canada's indifference to him. He complained to an enthusiastic reader of Volcano that the sales in Canada from the end of 1947-49 were pre? cisely 2 copies.4 No plaque marks the site on the beach at Dollarton off Burrard Inlet near Vancouver where Malcolm and Margerie Bonner Lowry had their fishermen's cabin for most of their fourteen years (1940 54) in Canada. No civic recognition was accorded him during his lifetime. Since his death in 1957, Canada has done better by him. Mrs. Lowry was royally received in 1962 when she accepted for her husband the Canadian Governor General's award in fiction for Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961), the best of a spate of posthumous fiction. The University of British Columbia maintains the only important Malcolm Lowry archive in the world. George Woodcock's Canadian Literature did more than any periodical in the world to keep interest in Lowry alive for a decade when not a single edition of Under the Volcano was in print. Malcolm Lowry was, in fact, a Canadian only by accident. Aged thirty and with a Cambridge education behind him, he emigrated to Can
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.044 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.052 | 0.005 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".