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sss-16656		sss-16656			.htm	text/html	1772	55	45	After a disquisition on AI and datasets, particularly referencing John Hinde, an English photographer who specialized in nostalgic picture postcards of rural Ireland that aestheticized the reality of grinding poverty, we encounter North American tourists on their visit to the Fort of the Kings on the Hill of Tara, followed, after the AI-produced Les Baxter parody, by a “lecture on the picturesque,” which ranges from eighteenth-century landscape painting through nineteenth- and twentieth-century picture postcards to present-day tourist snaps on Instagram. The final number is, perhaps unexpectedly, genuinely moving, narrating a car trip around Ireland, which allows an apparently dying child to see real-world sites he or she only knows from films representing fantasy places, such as Westeros (from the TV series Game of Thrones, largely shot in Northern Ireland), Middle Earth (from the film series Lord of the Rings, shot mostly in New Zealand, although the Hobbits’ “Shire” seems to evoke a leprechaun colony) and the planet Ahch-To (from Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, shot on Skellig Michael, off the southern coast of Ireland).	cache/sss-16656.htm	txt/sss-16656.txt
