Labels

AI art test (update 12): "Three Shards, The Witch and her Conjurer" (S.A. Carroll 1984). Background and Synopsis written.

 



Synopsis

Three Shards, The Witch and her Conjurer.

David Curiel is nobody, a man without past, is a man without future.  But, that's the way he likes it.  The fixer, the one you need to get the job done.  A corporate spy, and the one you won't see coming.  Until, Rosa witch of the Northern Star, hires his services.  Together the must unlock the mysteries of the Vortex Millenia, a sign every 2000 years the star Polaris will send us a code, the Three Shards of light.

Three Shards, The Witch and her Conjurer.

Curiel and Rosa are in a race against time, as the most advanced computer in existence, Gehenna, is about to become self aware. A new order of Artificial Intelligence or a new order of madness?  A Tibetan sharman trained Curiel, with the power to see Thirty minutes into the future.  But, he's the man without a past, and the future he doesn't care about.  Caught within the splinter of reality, Rosa, the Northern Witch must train him with her Alchemy of Sex, so his visions may become clearer.  The threat is real, as the days grow darker.  To stop Gehenna, before AI learns to decipher, the apocalyptic code of Polaris.

Three Shards, The Witch and her Conjurer.

This is more than a book, this is a manual, full of forbidden techniques.  To conjure the dark path, to use against darkness.  Curiel must conjoin to Rosa's sexual ritual, as it is written on the sacred card of the Stygian Tarot, the card known as the "Lovers of the Sinister" in her left hand.  As Rosa holds the key, in her right.  That it is of the feather from the fallen angel, Lucifer.

___  

Background  


No one really knows the identity of S.A. Carroll, except for the "S" meaning Samantha, and the "A" Ann.  The book was published by Smithton Books, a small book company that was bought by Penthouse Magazine in 1980, to which the magazine later denied the acquisition.  With only a single publication occurring within its short lived history, which was "Three Shards, The Witch and Her Conjurer", releasing a mere 5000 copies of the book.  There were also rumors that S.A. Carroll was a groupie that hung around Studio 54 in the late Seventies, yet there are no photos of background information to confirm this.  It was also rumored that she passed away in Chelsea, in a rundown apartment block in 1981, yet the book was published in 1984, when the manuscript was discovered inside a packing box, from an unpaid storage unit in Brooklyn.  Bidded for by cofounder Simon Hustan of Smithton Books, who was pressured by lenders to have an author ready to publish, Hustan then used the manuscript that he found inside the storage unit, as his company's first publication.  Which happened to be S.A. Carroll's manuscript, Three Shards, The Witch and Her Conjurer.

The background story to this mysterious book takes another unusual and bizarre turn, when Smithton Books hired Sōshi Tamayo a relatively unknown Japanese comic book artist to design the front cover, who claimed, despite not be able to read in English that he dreamt of an Artificial Intelligence computer that read the manuscript, and guided him to paint the book cover.  Tamayo faded into obscurity over the years, and in 2002, a Japanese film crew found Tamayo living on the streets of Tokyo dragging around a hollowed out computer monitor with all his art ideas for "Three Shards, The Witch and Her Conjurer." inside, including his finished proof, to which he stated to the film crew in 2002, that AI will be creating art for everybody someday, with just the use of words.

___

All surreal, oddly devised AI artwork (Remember, its "narrow" AI), and the above fictional wording, titles are mine:  (A.Glass 2024).  Please also note, that my own book covers, refer to this link , are never created with so called AI art programs.  The art is created solely by me, a human.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment