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Record W4233985107 · doi:10.1353/cal.0.0277

On Empire

2008· article· en· W4233985107 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCallaloo · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPostcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmpireAncient historyGeographyArtHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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On Empire Derek Walcott (bio) I And then there was no more Empire all of a sudden. Its victories were air, its dominions dirt. Burma, Canada, Egypt, Africa, India, The Sudan The map that had seeped its stain on a schoolboy’s shirt like red ink on a blotter, the battles, the long sieges. dhows and feluccas, hill stations, outposts, flags fluttering down in the dusk, their golden aegis went out with the sun, the last gleam on a great crag, with tiger-eyed turbaned Sikhs, pennons of the Raj, to a sobbing bugle. I see it all come about again, the tasselled cortege, the clop of the tossing team with funeral pom-poms, the sergeant major’s shout, the stamp of boots, then the volley; there is no greater theme than this chasm-deep surrendering of power the whited eyes and robes of surrendering hordes red tunics and the great names Sind, Turkistan, Cawnpore dust-dervishes and the Saharan silence afterwards. II A dragonfly’s biplane settles and there, on the map, the archipelago looks as if a continent fell and scattered into fragments; from Pointe du Cap to Moule à Chique, bois-canot, laurier cannelles, canoe-wood, spicy laurel, the wind-churned trees echo the African crests; at night, the stars are far fishermen’s fires, not glittering cities, Genoa, Milan, London, Madrid, Paris but crab-hunters torches. This small place produces nothing but beauty: the wind-warped trees, the breakers on the Dennery cliffs, and the wild light that loosens a galloping mare on the plain of Vieuxfort make us [End Page 1011] merely receiving vessels of this day’s grace, light simplifies us whatever our race or gifts I’m as content as Kavanagh with his few acres; for my heart to be torn to shreds like the sea’s lace, to see how its wings catch colour when a gull lifts. [End Page 1012] Derek Walcott Derek Walcott, poet, playwright, and essayist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. His most recent publications include Tiepolo’s Hound, Omeros, The Prodigal, and Selected Poems. His Dream on Monkey Mountain: And Other Plays was first published in 1972. This native of the Caribbean island St. Lucia is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Copyright © 2008 Charles H. Rowell

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.694
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.048
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.169 · 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