How I Write Clips(@PerellClips):AI is making all writing sound the same. But nature writing still resists this trend. Ocean Vuong reads from J.A. Baker's The Peregrine: "Mud was deep in the lanes, and along the sea wall. Thick, ochre mud, like paint. Oozing, gluttonous mud that seemed to sprout on the marsh like fungus. Octopus mud that clutched, and clung, and squelched, and sucked. Slippery mud, smooth, treacherous as oil. Mud stagnant. Mud evil. Mud in the clothes, in the hair, in the eyes. Mud to the bone." "I will never look at mud the same."

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2026.08.18 13:15

AI is making all writing sound the same. But nature writing still resists this trend. Ocean Vuong reads from J.A. Baker's The Peregrine: "Mud was deep in the lanes, and along the sea wall. Thick, ochre mud, like paint. Oozing, gluttonous mud that seemed to sprout on the marsh like fungus. Octopus mud that clutched, and clung, and squelched, and sucked. Slippery mud, smooth, treacherous as oil. Mud stagnant. Mud evil. Mud in the clothes, in the hair, in the eyes. Mud to the bone." "I will never look at mud the same."