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27.What is the best title for the passage
A.Why More Love Killed Growth
B.How Crop Reports Improved Creativity
C.How Dirt Under the Nails Grew Stories
D.Why Tools Mattered More Than Textbooks
c
It was a late afternoon in 1986.I was sitting with my tutor,the poet James Dickey.
Campus was lively with classes,but the darkness pooling outside made me feel shut off in a
place where words were life-or-death matters.In a poem that was otherwise finished,a single
adjective was clearly wrong.We batted alternatives back and forth across the desk,but none
was right.
Hours later,around 10 o'clock,the right word popped up.Immediately,I called Mr.
Dickey,“‘Pale!'The word is pale'！"
I had not thought about that phone call,much less that poem,in many years,but I've
begun to think about it often.An explosion of"AI assistants"has suddenly taken over my
inboxes and Word documents and texts.They appeared out of nowhere,like a crowd of fruit
flies around an overripe banana.Everything I type now is thick with robots suggesting
unwelcome robot words.
I have spent hours trying to kill them in my machine.I can sometimes adjust my settings
to disable the AI assistant,but the next software update turns it right back on again.In some
cases,I can't turn it off at all.The robots are relentless.
The writing teachers I know struggle to persuade their students not to use these tools.
They are everywhere now,impossible to bat away.Who could blame a young writer for
wondering how using these "assistants"is any different from using spell check or letting Siri
supply the next word in a text
But letting a robot structure your argument is dangerous.It's a streamlined way to flatten
the human mind.We know who we are,at least in part,by finding the words-messy,
imprecise,unexpected-to tell others,and ourselves,how we see the world.The world
which no one else sees in exactly that way.
I remember very little about that poetry collection.But I remember one poem in which
the word"pale"figured clearly.The search for the right word to fill the right place can
occupy a lifetime and,I'm convinced,make a self along the way.
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