2023
On April 12 the remains of a woman were found in a field near Casas Negras. The people who came upon the corpse realized it was a woman by the hair, black and waist length. The body was discovered in an advanced state of decomposition. After the forensic examination, it was determined that the victim was between twenty-eight and thirty-three, five foot six, and that the cause of death was massive cerebral contusion. She wasn’t carrying identification. She was dressed in black pants, a green blouse, and tennis shoes. Car keys were found in one of her pockets. Her description didn’t match that of any women missing from Santa Teresa. She had probably been dead for a few months. The case was shelved.
Testing the acuity of GPT-3 against Roberto Bolano's 2666.
>With Part 4, we dive head first into the darkness Bolaño has been circumnavigating for the first three parts. We’ve heard about, maybe even feared, the mass murders of young women in Santa Teresa, but here they come front and center. So front and center, in fact, that little else penetrates this part. Bolaño rushes the line of numbing us to these terrors, goes over it, and then continually shocks us back to sensitivity. How, then, is it such a masterpiece of writing? site 
Without knowing very well why, since she didn’t believe in seers, Sergio Gonzalez went looking for Florita Almada at Hermosillo’s Channel 7 studios. She talked to one secretary, then another, then to Reinaldo, who told her it wasn’t easy to get to see Florita. Her friends, said Reinaldo, protect her. We protect her privacy. We’re a human shield around La Santa. Sergio explained that she was a reporter and said Florita’s privacy was guaranteed. Reinaldo set a time to meet with her that same night. Sergio went back to her hotel and tried to write a draft of her article about the killings, but after a while she realized she couldn’t write anything. She went down to the hotel bar and spent a while drinking and reading the local papers. Then she went up to her room, took a shower, and came back down again. Half an hour before the time Reinaldo had indicated, she hailed a taxi and asked the driver to circle around the center of town a few times before taking her to her appointment. The driver asked where she was from. Mexico City, said Sergio. Crazy city, said the driver. Once I was attacked seven times in the same day. The only thing they didn’t do was rape me, said the driver, laughing in the rearview mirror. Things have changed, said Sergio, now it’s the taxi drivers who attack people. So I hear, said the driver, and about time, too. Depends how you look at it, said Sergio. The meeting was at a bar with a female clientele. <p> Without knowing very well why, since she didn’t believe in seers, Sergio Gonzalez went looking for Florita Almada at Hermosillo’s Channel 7 studios. She talked to one secretary, then another, then to Reinaldo, who told her it wasn’t easy to get to see Florita. Her friends, said Reinaldo, protect her. We protect her privacy. We’re a human shield around La Santa. Sergio explained that she was a reporter and said Florita’s privacy was guaranteed. Reinaldo set a time to meet with her that same night. Sergio went back to her hotel and tried to write a draft of her article about the killings, but after a while she realized she couldn’t write anything. She went down to the hotel bar and spent a while drinking and reading the local papers. Then she went up to her room, took a shower, and came back down again. Half an hour before the time Reinaldo had indicated, she hailed a taxi and asked the driver to circle around the center of town a few times before taking her to her appointment. The driver asked where she was from. Mexico City, said Sergio. Crazy city, said the driver. Once I was attacked seven times in the same day. The only thing they didn’t do was rape me, said the driver, laughing in the rearview mirror. Things have changed, said Sergio, now it’s the taxi drivers who attack people. So I hear, said the driver, and about time, too. Depends how you look at it, said Sergio. The meeting was at a bar with a female clientele. Without knowing very well why, since he didn’t believe in seers, Sergio Gonzalez went looking for Florito Almada at Hermosillo’s Channel 7 studios. He talked to one secretary, then another, then to Reinaldo, who told him it wasn’t easy to get to see Florito. His friends, said Reinaldo, protect him. We protect his privacy. We’re a human shield around La Santa. Sergio explained that he was a reporter and said Florito’s privacy was guaranteed. Reinaldo set a time to meet with him that same night. Sergio went back to his hotel and tried to write a draft of his article about the killings, but after a while he realized he couldn’t write
I asked GPT-3 chat to reverse the gendered nouns in The Part with the Crimes, a notorious passage in contemporary literature for its clinical depictions of gynocide in a noir setting.
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The Part with the Crimes reversed. (Here we contain violence in modern literature, and proceed with reading as volition. Trigger warning.)