#TheMachineStops written in 1909 by #EMForster should be read by everyone working on developing #ArtificialintelligenceAI

@ArgyleSoda I read The Road by #CormacMcCarthy and even tho it was a Pulitzer Prize winner I found it unenjoyable; it may have been well written but the story itself was so unremittingly depressing & horrific… ☹️ What are his other books like?
I’ve always been intimidated to read #Proust the nearest I’ve got is buying (but not reading) ‘How Proust Can Change Your Life’ by #AlainDeBotton

Classic authors I love: #Hugo #Austen #Hardy #EMForster #TheBronteSisters #FScottFitzgerald

#Introduction. Hello all. I'm a classicist in Ireland, with wide interests in Greek & Latin literature, Greek & Roman social and cultural history, and classical reception, esp. in Eng. lit. 1900-1939. Current main projects are a monograph on #EMForster and Classics and a new edition of EMF’s second novel, The Longest Journey. Other focuses: the ancient novel; bereavement, grief, and consolation in the Greco-Roman world; late-Antique literature, esp. Jerome. Art, music, poetry, drama, cricket.