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)

AI translation

Claude Opus 4.7

Analysis & computation

Claude Opus 4.7 and 4.8

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