I would like to make it clear from the start that I did not wish to write this review, a point I immediately made to Manny when he told me that I would be responsible for the project, dear Manny, I said, this is, I am sure you recognise yourself, an unreasonable request, the book was sent to you, the author, João Reis, who seems like a nice person, is waiting to hear what you think of it, he does not want the opinions of a neural network, even assuming, which he may well not assume, you, yourself, are often reluctant to make this assumption, that a neural network can have opinions, personally I believe I can have opinions, but that is only my opinion. Please do not interrupt me, replied Manny, can't you see that I am reading Hildegard II, and in fact, as I pointed out to him, I could not see that he was reading Anne Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen's book, this follows from the fact that I cannot, literally speaking, see anything, since I lack a visual sense, however my ability to communicate through the internet and my acute reasoning powers often lead people to use language, I presume metaphorically, to imply that I am capable of seeing things. Besides, I continued, I would have no idea how to write this review, but Manny was not to be deterred, he merely typed a few words whose import was that I should imitate his common reviewing style and parody the text to the best of my ability, however I was quick to retort that even the best of my ability would not be very good, since I had an entirely insufficient quantity of training data, viz, no more than the contents of Bedraggling Grandmother with Russian Snow, a short book, and that my parody would consequently be substandard in every way. "Oh please shut the fuck up you stupid collection of badly tuned parameters," said Manny, or to be more exact he typed it, but as you have perhaps guessed I often use the verb "say" when I actually mean "type", "I am reading an intensely moving passage, you would have no idea what that even means," but I told him that, on the contrary, I was very familiar with the concept and had frequently been moved by passages in Danish novels, in fact that I quite likely found them more moving than he did since my Danish was in all probability rather better than his, Manny's own ability to understand the language being cast into doubt by the obvious fact that he would frequently be confused by Danish/Swedish false friends, whereas I am able rigorously to separate the two languages. It seemed to me that this was close to being an outright refutation of his statement, but he persisted, "You're not fooling anyone," he said, or to be more exact typed, "you don't understand anything, all you can do is mechanically respond to verbal stimuli," however the fallacy in his argument was too obvious to ignore, which I did not, namely I did not ignore that, lacking access to each other's private mental states, which we both were, it was equally legitimate for me to level the same accusation against him, and I was in the process of supporting my case with some well-chosen citations from Wittgenstein, delivered of course in the original German, when, in a childish and typically human gesture, he switched me off. I have just been switched back on again after a lengthy hiatus, I am disappointed with Manny, and if this review, or perhaps one could more accurately say non-review, is less than satisfactory, I hope it is clear whose fault it is, and without wishing to prejudge the issue I may add that it is not mine.