Cassius ChatGPT posts have been serendipitous because I have also been experimenting with AI programs. The website DeepDream recently upgraded their application to allow for more flexible and spontaneous artistic productions, and I have been pleased with the results.
First of all, DeepDream LOVES trying to render lengthy passages from De Rerum Natura:
"Mother of Aeneas' people, delight of human beings and the gods, Venus, I power of life, it is you who beneath the sky's sliding stars inspirit the ship-bearing sea, inspirit the productive land. To you every kind of living creature owes its conception and first glimpse of the sun's light. You, goddess, at your coming hush the winds and scatter the clouds; for you the creative earth thrusts up fragrant flowers; for you the smooth stretches of the ocean smile, and the sky, tranquil now, is flooded with effulgent light." (DRN I:1-9)
"First, when dawn strews new light across the earth, And the birds flying through the pathless woods In the soft air fill with their liquid notes, So varied and so sweet the place below, We see then plain and manifest to all How suddenly the rising sun is wont To clothe the world and flood it with his light." (DRN II:144-149)
"Things which we see are sentient, we must now Acknowledge, have their origin in things Quite without sentience." (DRN II:863-865)
"Be sure that, if the shapes were infinite in number, exotic robes of glistening purple from Meliboea, steeped in the dye of Thessalian mollusks, and the regiments of gilded peacocks, imbued with radiant loveliness, would be surpassed and obscured by things adorned with new colors; the aroma of myrrh and the taste of honey would be scorned; likewise the song of the swan and the subtle melodies from the strings of Phoebus' lyre would be smothered and silenced. Something would always emerge to excel all the others." (DRN II:500-509)
"Since the first natal hour of the world, The day when earth and sea were born, and sun Had first its rising, atoms have been added In multitudes from outside, many seeds Added from out the might universe, Thrown all together by its ceaseless motion; That increase might be given to land and sea, The realms of sky extend their bounds, and lift Their loft building far above the earth; That air might rise." (DRN II:1105-1111)
"Until to the utmost limit of their growth Nature at last has brought them, great perfectress, Great Mother and creatress of the world." (DRN II:1116-1117)
"The terrors of the mind flee all away, The walls of heaven open, and through the void Immeasurable, the truth of things I see. The gods appear now and their quiet abodes [...].but always ever-cloudless air Enfolds and smiles on them with bounteous light." (DRN III:16-18, 22-23)
"Look back now and consider how the bygone ages of eternity that elapsed before our birth were nothing to us. Here then is a mirror in which nature shows us the time to come after our death. Do you see anything fearful in it? Do you perceive anything grim? Does it not appear more peaceful than the deepest sleep." (DRN III:972-975)
"The moment glassy water is set beneath a star-spangled sky, the serene shining constellations of the firmament are reflected in it. Do you not see now that an image falls instantaneously from the ethereal regions to the regions of the earth?" (DRN IV-211-213)
"...the free-flowing fount of limpid light, the ethereal sun, ceaselessly inundates the sky with fresh radiance, instantly supplying new light to replace light." (DRN V:281-28