Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Lies We Tell is a semi-autobiographical novel about a gay man who falls into a coma, written by a gay man who has never been in a coma. The text explores topics including inter- generational relationships, online hookup culture in the mid-2000s, twins, and the nature of memory. The novel follows two protagonists, Dale and Luis, a couple of ten years living in Toronto who are on the brink of a breakup. Following a disastrous dinner party, Luis and Dale drive home (drunk) and get in a car accident (thanks to a deer), and thus begins Luis’s coma, during which he vividly relives — and reflects upon — his final year of high school. The novel is told through present- and past-tense narration in the third-person from both Dale and Luis’s perspectives. Inspired in part by other novels about characters in comas, the text uses multiple levels of dreamlike consciousness in an attempt to breathe new life into a tired literary trope. The characters' narrative arcs explore an array of themes, including a meditation on the lure of middle-class stability for gay men, how sexual abuse is internalized, and the terrifying power of self-deception.
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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 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.008 |
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".