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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: No Wise Man here (Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion)
- In-Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.com's message of Fri, 25 Dec 1992 17:38:05 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 11:53:57
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- Few are the occasions in which I find myself in any kind of agreement
- with Steve Dyer. However, I can't see the relevance of the fact that
- Gertrude Stein was fat. Also for the fact that she was lesbian
- to be relevant requires some sort bridge to what she wrote. Come to
- think of it, I suppose an ingenious person might establish some kind
- of connection between being fat and what she wrote, although I can't
- think of what it might be. Curiously, the fact that a writer was Jewish
- is often considered relevant in terms of the writer's reaction to that
- background.
-
- (By the way I am assuming that the previous posters are correct about
- all these facts. My one attempt at reading Gertrude Stein was not
- encouraging.)
-
- Still calling someone a `(fat lazy ,X) is a sin of minor proportions.
- I expect I have been called fat and lazy, though not to my face. My
- second wife sometimes referred to me as "my fat husband" - most often
- when it was a question of climbing some mountain.
-
- Anyway t'is the season of de-escalation of quarrels - if not of actual
- peace.
- --
- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- *
- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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