Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pigeon Soup and Other Stories is quintessentially Italian-Canadian -calling to mind the rallying cry "We, The North, " but here the context might be high-school basketball, the setting a small northern Ontario town, with the identities of the characters unmistakably and recognizably Italian-Canadian.Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli turns a spotlight into some very dark corners -high-school bullying, sexual abuse, and childhood trauma.Perhaps the darkest of these occurs in the short story "This Too Shall Pass." It begins innocently enough, with Angelo Leone pulling into his parents' driveway, returned to his northern Ontario hometown of Copper Cliff after months away at the University of Toronto, the snow coming down thick and wet.He showers quickly and then is invited into the living room to say hello to a visitor.Angelo complies reluctantly, mentally setting a two-minute timer to do his "filial duty and preserve the family's bella figura" (22).The guest is none other than Father Joel -the man Angelo most despises in the world, "sitting in his father's favourite chair, meeting Angelo's eyes unblinkingly, as if he had every right to be there, " the open bottle of Vecchia Romagna on the coffee table with several glasses, the Italian hospitality ( 22).What follows is a story of grooming, humiliation, and shame that takes place against the backdrop of unquestioning Italian respect for the institution of the Catholic Church and obedience to its priests.Although Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli is a woman writer and cannot have lived this scene, she understands how predator priests can happen, how a Father Joel could reduce the toughest jock to holy ashes: "Take your right hand and stick it into your jockstrap." Father Joel closed the distance between them, his thick brows furrowing."Are you trying to be a smartass, Leone?Didn't your good Italian parents teach you to do as you're told?"He grabbed Angelo's hand and covered it with his own before sliding it down Angelo's shorts to his crotch."Now leave this hand here and
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".