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'23kpc' Chapters 2-3: Inventing a Place from Scratch
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'23kpc' Chapters 2-3: Inventing a Place from Scratch

...when nowhere like it has ever existed (or likely ever will)

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Sep 14, 2024
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'23kpc' Chapters 2-3: Inventing a Place from Scratch
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An apparently battered, grainy color photo of the entrance to a French Quarter restaurant; four wrought-iron chairs are on the wooden walkway outside, beneath the aging louvered windows. The sign over the door isn't 100% legible, but seems to say something like "JFERINCH [O or R?] ROLL."
An AI-generated image of the exterior of a restaurant in the New Orleans French Quarter, at night. The AI got the name of the restaurant wrong — I’m not sure what the name on this place’s sign even says… but this is kinda the look I had in mind.. (The AI’s original image was sharper, slicker; I beat it up — sorry, “added character” — using a couple of i…

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