If you’re a fan of Slow Horses, you are familiar with Mick Herron’s work. The man has a way with words. I’ve been reading the Slough House series, and much to my partner’s chagrin, I can’t read it quietly. I can read for about a minute before I am compelled to read it aloud. The sentences he builds can be little electric shocks to my brain!.
Here are a couple from a different series of his, the Oxford Series.
FYI, Merriam-Webster says prelapsarian refers to the time before the fall of man: characteristic of or belonging to the time or state before the fall of humankind.
Here’s another one, so evocative of driving into a city that I can’t get the picture out of my mind.
On the other hand, there’s AI transcription:
WW2 veteran, talking about using a .30-caliber carbine.
AI transcript: Thank God I never had to fart.
Actual transcript: Thank God I never had to fire it.
AI transcript: There was a guy in a big white town truck
Actual transcript: There was a guy in a big five-ton truck.
AI transcript: He wore a shoulder. Warden was lost.
Actual Transcript: He was washed overboard and was lost. (He wore a shoulder????????)
AI transcript: “. . . And when you ask her why she did that, she replied that pennies make Nichols, Nichols make quarters. quarters make dollars…”
AI transcript: I was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Auschwitz 12, 1924.
Actual Transcript: I was born in Cleveland, Ohio. August 12, 1924.