zn wrote:

Fixed

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But did you fix it as part of some cold, random, purposeless, meaningless, Universe,
or were you meant to fix it?

w
v

So, would the Rams seasons under Fisher be
horror, sci-fi, or fantasy?

I’m thinking…tepid bath-water.
Tepid Bath-water is a football
genre.

Poe knew nothing about it. Shakespeare either.

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v

TSRF wrote:

WV, have you ever been asked to interview prospective students?

I’m getting so parent crazy about my son, I already asked two of the senior physicists I work with if they would host a mock interview with him.

If interviews are part of your gig, would you consider a mock phone interview? We already toured Yale (30 minutes down Route 34) and it is one of his choices. He scored great on the SAT, getting a 2320, and just got back his ACT score of 35.

Thanks.

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Nah, I wouldn’t know how to interview
a human that smart.

I will be happy to interview
any Bonobo’s you might know.

Is your son going to be a Physicist?
Ask him what the Universe is made of
for me.

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v

What book made it into the the National Review’s top 20 AND
the best Anarchist-Communist-Socialist top 20 ?

Homage to Catalonia

http://www.listmuse.com/best-anarchist-communist-socialist-books.php

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/215718/non-fiction-100

…btw, i read God and Man at Yale, when i was young. I’m sorry. I apologize,
It was a lapse of judgment i can never atone for…

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v

zn wrote:

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(from the 2nd thoughts file). As the moderator, I want to caution zn on being too argumentative. Anyone can think anything about Harold Bloom they want to…let a thousand Blooms…uh…flower.

.

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thankyou

THAT is what makes/can make this place something
special

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Billy_T wrote:

Have always liked this quote:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

― John Rogers

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lol

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v
“It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, there’s a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopedia Britannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more ‘numinous’ than the Resurrection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don’t they?”
― Carl Sagan

canadaram wrote:

The Lord of the Rings is my foil. Several times I have tried to read that book yet I can never get past 20 pages or so. My eyes glaze over every time. I’m pretty sure that all of my friends have read the all the LOTR books plus The Hobbit. I will try again some day soon, but for now it remains my shame.

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Well, u could do what i did — skip the ‘geography’ parts.

That leaves only about ten pages, btw.

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Billy_T wrote:

And the book that pointed me in its direction, George Scialabba’s What are Intellectuals Good For. To me, it’s a must-read, especially for leftists.

(I’ve had discussions online with Scialabba. He has a very sharp mind, and a good heart. Good sense of humor as well.)

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He has a favorite quote section.
http://www.georgescialabba.net/mt/

If i were lord of this kingdom, everyone would be required
to have a favorite-quote section.

Some of his:

“And left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.”
Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
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Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it’s all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it’s all organized by the Italians.
Anonymous
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I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger, even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”
Winston Churchill, 1937, on the Arab inhabitants of Palestine.
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Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
Judge Learned Hand
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When [government] regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.
Adam Smith
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Samuel P. Huntington
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While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening
to empire
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the
mass hardens,
I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.
Robinson Jeffers – “Shine, Perishing Republic”

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The buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.
A.E. Newton