Anton Hur

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Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him. 🔗: antonhur.com

Anton and Andrew wearing oddly coordinated blue button-down shirts at the West Cork Litfest green room
Old Bantry House and its green gardens and deep blue cloudless sky
Cover of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Twelve Thousand Days
Hemicycle plenary chamber of the EU parliament
ICE train parked at Frankfurt Airport
A squirrel is on the for escape at a cabin in Vermont
Damion and Anton signing books at Bread Loaf
Vermont blue sky green hill and field and white house, bucolic vibe
Anton at MOMA PS 1
Cover of The Mulai
차별금지법 제정하라는 푯말 든 안톤
Anton holding up child’s fork that doesn’t even fit in his hand
Olga Tokarczuk says: I state briefly and firmly: 1. I make use of artificial intelligence on the same principles as most people in the world - I treat it as a tool that allows faster documenting and checking of facts. Whenever I use this tool I additionally verify the information. Just as I have done for several decades by reading books and by exploring libraries and archives. 2. None of my texts, including the novel that will appear in Polish this fall, has been written with the help of artificial intelligence - except for using it as a tool for faster preliminary research. 3. I am sometimes inspired by dreams, but before this sentence too is cornered and torn to pieces by the experts, I hasten to report that they are my own dreams. Olga Tokarczuk, May 19, 2006 Anton rebuts: none of these rebuttals address the fact that Al is destroying our environment, making people less critical and more compliant, and ALSO THE FACT THAT IT'S PLAGIARIZING WRITERS
"Allowing a transgender adolescent with gender dysphoria to experience their endogenous puberty when puberty blockers are medically indicated according to the Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline is highly likely to result in irreversible physical changes that create enormous short- and long-term distress and gender dysphoria," Folsom wrote. "Thus, there was substantial evidence that S.B. 63 not only fails to protect minors, but also endangers them, by prohibiting the use of GnRH agonists when medically indicated."
A Reddit forum dedicated to discussions about the LIRR has been undated with comments and questions from commuters anxious about how they will get to work or school.
Octavia Butler bookmark framed in Anton’s library. A quote from Butler printed on it that says, All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change.
German cover of Toward Eternity
Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart stand before a tombstone from the movie Possession
Jack Schlossberg refusing to say "free Palestine" on camera
In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer. The body's cells are entirely replaced with nanites-robot or android cells which not only cure those afflicted but leaves them virtually immortal. Literary researcher Yonghun teaches an Al how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband. When Yonghun-himself a recipient of nanotherapy-mysteriously vanishes into thin air and then just as suddenly reappears, the event raises disturbing questions. What happened to Yonghun, and though he's returned, is he really himself anymore?
I2. To write poetry is to dig a waterway for words. Poetry allows words to flow through you. The poet must not force the flow of words but rather watch and wait. I3. To write poetry is to create a way for words to pass. The poet must not drag words through you but rather watch them flow through you. I4. Literature isn't made by us. Literature is made by language. There is no path that language cannot enter. Language can't even be talked about without language.
Translated Novel • On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) (SF] • The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H] • The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H] • Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF] • The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H] • Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF] • Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor) [F]
Screenshot of Bluesky TL showing: Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.... • 12m crowdsourcing my beowulf translation word by word: "So what would you guys put for pēod-cyninga?" aq John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsk... • 47m Stop trying to make hwæt happen.
In the New York Times: Since the fall, the German news media has seemed obsessed with the question of how a teen could write a sweeping, traditional historical novel. "Most people expect a young person's first book to be about their own life," Biedermann said, sipping an herbal tea in a cafe in central Zurich. "But even if you discount my age, people found it interesting that the book is stylistically, linguistically old-fashioned."
Headline: Vance Faces a High-Profile Test of His Negotiating Skills With Iran Talks
Anton looking happy in the sun under a sign that says be happy from here.
A fleet of bullet trains at a sleek, futuristic train station, except this is not the future, it’s the present.
Anton unboxes the small Toward Eternity Nomad edition copies. Captions of what is being said appear in the upper right corner.
Fancy looking Nhaga woman with bloody sword.
Gigantic chicken warrior stomping on an armored someone.
A Nhaga riding a gigantic monkey attacking a gigantic warrior chicken.
A gigantic chicken warrior is being ferried in the air by a gigantic beetle.
A temple with overgrown weeds all over the place featuring the statute of a Rekon goddess.
A wooden dragon wrapped in green lightning.
A goblin wrapped in fire.
A seven-foot warrior rooster looking heroic.
Gigantic islands floating in the sky.
Nhaga holding up a beating heart in their hands.
Anton taking a selfie video with a kangaroo at Mount Ainsle in Canberra, Australia.
Anton striking a dramatic pose under the sky hole of a James Turrell installation. A circle of sky is shown through the hole.
Zoomed out view of exhibit. On top is a large disc like the sky with white stars and shadows the shapes of animals. On the walls hang dark bark rectangles with white engraved stars.
Anton poses with kangaroo. He is wearing sunglasses from Witchery, an Australian brand for stylish professional women.
Sydney Opera House at night
Screenshot of manuscript attached to an email
With the money mostly raised for the War Refugee Board by American Jews, Wallenberg rented 32 buildings in Budapest and declared them to be extraterritorial, protected by diplomatic immunity. He put up signs such as "The Swedish Library" and "The Swedish Research Institute" on their doors and hung oversized Swedish flags on the front of the buildings to bolster the deception. The buildings eventually housed almost 10,000 people.
“then die” meme
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible. I don't have any advice for how to do that. I'm sorry!
Chanda and Anton dance in a museum. Anton badly
A shelf filled with Anton’s translations and books
An empty apartment
He asked for the foreman, and looked round among the new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked, or waiting to be removed. They were marked by precision, mathematical straightness, smoothness, exactitude: there in the old walls were the broken lines of the original idea; jagged curves, disdain of precision, irregularity, disarray. For a moment there fell on Jude a true illumination; that here in the stone yard was a centre of effort as worthy as that dignified by the name of scholarly study within the noblest of the colleges. But he lost it under stress of his old idea. He would accept any employment which might be offered him on the strength of his late employer’s recommendation; but he would accept it as a provisional thing only. This was his form of the modern vice of unrest.
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