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Record W4206141701 · doi:10.1353/wlt.2010.0025

See How Much I Love You by Luis Leante, Martin Schifino

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Meredith Boe

Bibliographic record

VenueWorld Literature Today · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicThemes in Literature Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeLiteratureInstinctTragedy (event)Style (visual arts)PhilosophyHistoryAestheticsArt

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KATJAKALLIO ? "Wholly enttttainJaf...a noval that books ywin from tb* fira llae.?tba mfa lives tbe tragedy ofapeople whohm? been systematically i?niniliwd malsacrificed by history.' LUIS LEANTE I1 read the extent to which a marriage, i however long,can fall intoa shallow j habit between two people who have i barely known each other. Their con , versation and those around them has 1 consisted of irritatingly pedantic and i presumptive philosophical subjects, 1 such as thenature ofGod, as iftheir i opinions would suffice as the final 1 word in such matters, i For an observant reader, Kal j Ho's narrative is rich in symbols, the i most extraordinary ofwhich is the , explosion of a glass tabletop soon 1 after Henri's move out of the apart i ment. The table is designed by the 1 internationally famous Kaj Franck, i whose mention exemplifies current [ prose style. In it,labels and designer i names, presumed to be familiar to , readers, assume comparable impor 1 tance with narrative events and i characters. It's noteworthy that Tuu 1 likki's emotional blindness toward i Henri is offsetby Sofia's instinctive ' knowledge of Henri as a person, i The narrative is filteredthrough the , perspectives ofmany characters and i their curiously stilted lives, which , express the vulnerability of today's 1 human beings and the loss of emo tional anchors that would attach them to somethingmeaningful and lasting in life. To emphasize the fact, Kallio juxtaposes an immigrant Mus lim family, still a rare occurrence in Finnish society,having a picnic in a park. But for the father's head cover, he wears Western clothingwith the inevitable jeans. He attends to his threechildrenwhile themother sits serenely secure in her place with a soft scarf tied around her head. It occurs to Tuulikki that unlike thewomen she knows, theMuslim woman still has religion and tradi tions as her support. She embraces them as if they were rooms where every object is familiarand in itsown place, reflectingthedignity ofmany hundreds of years of culture. Thus the reader ismet with yet another instance inwhich Kallio reverses the familiarwith the unfamiliar while simultaneously jolting her readers from their comfort zones. Katja Kal lio is to be congratulated for narrat ing tous what, fora lack of a better word, we call postmodernity inboth itsweaknesses and rare triumphs. Seija Paddon Toronto Luis Leante. See How Much ILove You. = Martin Schifino, tr. London. Marion = Boyars.2009. 256 pages. ?9.99/$ 14.95.| isbn978-0-7145-3154-0| Luis Leante's enchanting, award- E winning 2009 novel, SeeHow Much I E Love You, reflectsthe misery faced in E thedesert of the Western Sahara in = the 1970swhile entangling the read- = er in a haunting love storybetween E two Spaniards who, in turn,become E involved with a dangerous and = hopeless Spanish colony inAfrica? = a place where "the scorching sun = and the dry, biting wind make it = impossible for life to go about its = business normally." Inspired by = Leante's humanitarian journey to E the area in 2005, this evocative novel E includes thenecessary historywhile E stillbeing satisfactorilyentertaining. = Eighteen-year-old Montse is = eager for adventure but confined E to her rich parents' house, and the E dashing Santiago San Roman ful- = fillsher yearning. As an optimistic = beginning forboth the couple and E the country, the two young lov- = ers become inseparable and fall = madly in love,with littleattention E to Spain's conflicts or politics. But E when Montse sees Santiago with E another girl and learns of her own E pregnancy, she vows to never speak E to him again, abandoning the rela- E tionship and driving him to mili- = taryservice in thedangerous depths = of the Western Sahara desert. San- = tiago is desperate and frustrated, = and finally forgetsMontse to find = love with a Saharawi woman living = near his base. Twenty years later, = Montse, now a brilliant but disheart- = ened doctor, is divorced, and her E only daughter has justdied. She had E heard years before thatSantiago had E been killed in battle, but coinciden- E tally she finds a photograph of him E in a patient's belongings. Her life- E January-February 2010 i67 H threatening journey to findhim in...

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.077
Threshold uncertainty score0.257

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0770.046

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.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.200
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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".

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