Carole David. Unholy Stories. Translated by Nora Alleyn. Toronto: Guernica, 2005.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Aside from its size-a scant eighty pages-there is nothing light about Italian-Canadian author Carole David's Unholy Stories.It is a dense, dark and deeply unsettling collection of twelve short stories, some no more than five pages long.The conciseness of the text is a refreshing balance to their distressingly weighty material-David's subjects careen from drug addiction to self-mutilation, disfigurement to incest, teen pregnancy to elder abuse.The tone of David's many narrators is bitter and brooding, and only intermittently spattered with hope; to drag out the narrative any longer would render it so dreary as to be practically unbearable.As it is, these twelve unholy stories are more like voyeuristic glances: sometimes hazy, often perverse, but always fascinating.David's work has been met with a substantial amount of acclaim.La Maison
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.009 | 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.
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".