but what?

“read this to be clean.” is my website. It mostly holds my list of Works, some weird fiction from my mid-20s, and the derelicts of several short-lived blogs.

but who?

I am Alexander Dove Lempke (he/she/they/&c.). I write prose and verse, create games, and play, compose, and record music. I release some of this music under the name Alexander Dove, and I play and record still more music as part of the Scottish/Irish folk group Dòrain.

but why?

why “read this to be clean.”? The phrase came from a bot attempting to mimic me, based on my social media postings from around a decade ago, back when AI and bots were funny and intriguing, and not a threat to all human creative life. Some of my posts were quotes drawn from various disciplines and centuries, so this bot was “fed” on a highly omnivorous diet. Written without intent, by a being without passions or context, there is no means or motive to interpret the phrase. It’s debatable if it meets the basic requirements of “meaning” at all.