![]() Later in Ishiguro’s book, the protagonist struggles with a parent who is trying to create a virtual identity based on her in order to heal from the death of a child. (In the prologue of my book, there was a statement about virtual identities helping parents heal from the death of a child and here in the first chapter, we are introduced to the concept of a virtual identity or second self. As soon as they went back home, they plugged back in and But most of them only hewed to these standards while In public) and they identified with the fight against Moloch, otherwise known asĮlectronic lobotomization. The college eschewed having augmented reality interfaces stuck to their eyes (at least Generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…” and “I’d rather haveĪ bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” The nouveau beatnik denizens of The de facto college mottos were “caveat emptor,” “I’ve seen the best minds of my (Ishiguro’s book is about an outsider trying to bridge the gap between futuristic technology and humanity and as in my book, it is expressed through the contrast between city and countryside.) The enhanced selves that people in the cityĭeveloped were considered to be much more accurate and “real”.Īlice had grown up in the countryside and left to attend college in the city. Please recall that the evidence below is in addition to the 100 points listed and plotted out in an earlier blog post.Īccording to the popular psychology of the city, Alice’s sense of her non-cityįriends’ “realness” was merely an illusion, a thin theory of mind which was polluted I really hope he created this mess for a good reason and that I’m not going to get crushed for complaining. I published the version on Amazon in May 2018 and Ishiguro published his book in 2021 and he wrote that he hadn’t made much progress on his book in 2017 because he had won a Nobel Prize. I sent it to friends in December 2017 and then joined the online writing group. Looking back at the space in which I documented the production of the novel, I see that I had 30k words in April of 2017 and I was just about done in October 2017. I also changed the protagonist name from Alice to Alix. Nobody liked my titles, so I changed it again and again, deciding to satisfy myself instead of anyone else. Back then, I called it Disengaging from the Machine and briefly thereafter, I called it When I Break Free. It was registered with the US copyright office and seen by some of my friends back in 2017. In this post, I’m providing a sample of my early, 2017 version of My Adorable Apotheosis in which I’ve highlighted some of the prominent themes in Ishiguro’s book. I know that the clock is ticking on dealing with these issues and I’m moving as quickly as I can, but getting witnesses to read all of the books and approve of my analysis is difficult! Uma And the Answer to Absolutely Everything.After seeing eight versions of a story I wrote within three years, this honestly wouldn’t surprise me. Ishiguro said that he was inspired to write Klara and the Sun after having seen a colouful children’s book and this makes me wonder if there is a colourful children’s book version of my story somewhere out there as well. They told me that the way I’d written it was awful and recommended that I remove some things that I now see in Ishiguro’s manuscript. What I find interesting is that it matches Ishiguro’s story framing in a more obvious way than the later versions of my manuscript which I had modified and extended on the advice of beta readers from the online writing community I’d joined. It was never fully published in precisely this form, but people saw it. There was an early version of my manuscript that several of my friends read before I brought it to an online writers’ community in search of ‘beta readers’. ![]() Some people insist that a complaint about copyright cannot be made unless one can prove how the manuscript was acquired and I think that I can actually do that, although I believe that when the evidence of copying is strong enough, this shouldn’t be required. ![]()
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