John Baez, mathematical physicist:
[W]hen mathematicians say a concept is “too abstract”, I assume it means they don’t understand it yet but are embarrassed to say “I don’t understand it yet”.
This is based on my own self-perception.
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Spitefic: Access Denied
And now, the third installment in my Atlas Shrugged spitefic series! For the previous entries, see here and here.
Today’s vignette is inspired by a scene which so perfectly embodies an intellectually and morally bankrupt “philosophy” that it becomes viscerally repulsive. I figured that this scenario would be a better served if the cast of characters were enlarged and some substitutions made. We begin with Dagny telling the guard to let her, Hank and Francisco pass. Again, the italicized lead-in is a quotation from the original.
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Spitefic: Working Class Hero
Another spitefic, prompted by Adam Lee’s Atlas Shrugged series! The italicized lead-in is quoted from the original. (Another line later on is a quotation, too.)
Content warning: child abuse.
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Daria Makes a Deal, Chapter Seven
Fair warning: In my dubious wisdom, I have decreed that it is time for a flashback. This is where we get to see the cascading aftereffects of Jane Lane’s summer in the art colony play out in her college years. For previous installments of DMAD, see the chapter index. The escapade with Jodie Landon was recounted in Chapter Two.
CHAPTER SEVEN
The wind down Huntington Avenue is cold.
It is the Sunday before Thanksgiving, 2001.
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