%%% arose from a desire to visually represent the concept of desire or desire as a disembodied force as opposed to the desire of any particular agent. Machine learning was employed as a tool for investigation and amalgamation. The resulting images were generated by training a generative adversarial network on the covers of 500+ erotic novels spanning a wide array of genres, themes, and sexual orientations. These images allude to the formal organization of the book covers that served as training material for the model, although well-defined human subjects and titles have been replaced by a plethora of gelatinous forms and indecipherable text.

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