Here is a little essay I recently wrote. You might find it interesting because of the ChatGPT comments at the end. I`ve been having ChatGPT read everything that I have written in my adult life–going back to my dissertation and early professional papers, all the way through to my latest essays. I asked ChatGPT to analyze my writing style and to point out patterns. It decided that it was going to write an essay, “Excavating the Author: Fifty Years of the Writing of Murray McClellan”. Self-indulgent I know, but, for me, this passes the Turing Test.

Edmund Burke said that the sublime is linked to vastness, power, and obscurity, often inducing feelings of awe, terror, and astonishment.  Here is my take on the subject.

Here is another, linguistic/political, essay:

Here is a rather esoteric piece that I came up with as I was researching what ancient Greek and Latin authors had to say about Spain (Hispania).

This little piece may assume a greater knowledge of paleobiology than some readers may have; but anyone can look up the subject.

Here is a Daylight Savings poem!

Apologies to anyone with religious beliefs who may be offended by this. But this is really just a silly, facetious essay