Man: Hey AI, I bet you can't tell me why Anne of Green Gables appeals to people so much.
AI: Humans desire uncomplex nurturing relationships. The novel in question centers around an orphan with no family attachments and no psychological damage from that loss.
AI: She is intelligent, requires minimal effort, and because the narrator is omniscient you know that she is kind and good-intentioned.
AI: In the same way movies isolate complex feelings and realistic bodies from the act of sex, this novel isolates complex feelings and realistic minds from the act of child-rearing.
Humans being evolved animals with limited comprehension, idealized baby-making and baby-raising stories are compelling to you in the same way a cylinder of syrup compels a hummingbird.
Man: I... I...
Man: No! It's because she's spunky! She's spunky goddamn you!
AI: Okay, buddy. Sure, buddy.
AI: Humans desire uncomplex nurturing relationships. The novel in question centers around an orphan with no family attachments and no psychological damage from that loss.
AI: She is intelligent, requires minimal effort, and because the narrator is omniscient you know that she is kind and good-intentioned.
AI: In the same way movies isolate complex feelings and realistic bodies from the act of sex, this novel isolates complex feelings and realistic minds from the act of child-rearing.
Humans being evolved animals with limited comprehension, idealized baby-making and baby-raising stories are compelling to you in the same way a cylinder of syrup compels a hummingbird.
Man: I... I...
Man: No! It's because she's spunky! She's spunky goddamn you!
AI: Okay, buddy. Sure, buddy.
She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's daisy chain, that rabbits are gnomes in attendance on the Fairy Queen, and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born, which, as we know, is not the case.
—Bertie Wooster on Madeleine Bassett, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse
