Acknowledgments

The people, sources, and tools behind the experiment.

Experiment — Lukas Seel, with Sophie Duvernoy.

Source novel — Gabriele Tergit, Effingers (1951).

Human translation — Sophie Duvernoy, "Spring," from Effingers (New York Review Books, 2025).

Translation & computation — Claude Opus 4.7.

The German source and the human translation are shown in part, for comparison and commentary.