Medaglia, Lina. The Demons of Aquilonia. Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2009.
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Abstract
Reviews 129 "Right."She gave me a dreamy look."Thanks," she said."For what?" "For being you," she said."You're like a hot wire with ideas and it's incredibly sexy, believe me." (97) Anche Naomi è sedotta sessualmente dalla "mente" e "idee" di Mark: "And you have such an active mind.Oh, I've been listening.I've been observing you.I can't help what I see.Ideas can be so sexy, you know."(112) Quando Mark fa all'amore con Jen, I termini della dicotomia tra idee e sesso si intrecciano fino a fondersi: egli sente "something so deep inside me that it could swim through all the black blood that I had put in my veins.The blood of Tolstoy and Faulkner and Heidegger, to name only a few." (15) La libertà sessuale di Mark diventa libertinaggio quando egli tradisce la moglie con Renata e ne sente rimorso.Quando Jen scopre la tresca di Mark lo lascia.Si separano ed entrambi sono infelici, fino a quando si ricongiungono anche sessualmente con loro totale appagamento.Il moralismo di Paci è una costante caratteristica delle sue opere, come appare pure alla fine di quest'ultimo romanzo.Il sesso è una realtà della vita la cui verità va scoperta senza infingimenti.La moralità si ritrova nelle sue opere prima nella scoperta del sesso-peccato da bambino allo Stone Garden, nello stato di esilio degli immigrati simile alla scacciata dall'Eden, e infine nella ricerca della vera dignità umana: "This is precisely what my work seeks to answer."("Interview," in EG.Paci: Essays on His Works.Ed.J. Pivato, Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2003, 132-144).Il suo stile è quello di un realismo che, attraverso le sue opere, rappresenta variamente una realtà oggettiva, sensoriale, mimetica, talora surreale e grottesca.In questa sua opera, lo stile è conciso, facile ed efficace, come oggi piace tanto ai giovani.Citiamo per esempio, oltre ai brani già riportati sopra, un brano qualsiasi, dove le frasi si riducono anche ad un solo sostantivo: "The flat expance of ice.The sculptures.The vast bright sky.I had to step back and blink.I look at Jen." (100).In generale, predomina sempre in Paci una prospettiva filosofica della vita.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.073 | 0.022 |
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".