The first spread of The Comet consists of the entirety of chapter 34 of The Education of Henry Adams (1905), a 20th century autobiographical nonfiction.
The second spread was created by feeding this chapter to ChatGPT 3 with a prompt to simplify Adams' text slightly, making it more "modern and approachable," while keeping most of the language the same.
-Benjamin Lord
3/13/2026
