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[hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi]

(Hopeless latecomer as always; just back from my 
paternal grandma\'s funeral, who died two weeks ago at 
the age of 100; she, incredibly, managed to live in 
three centuries...)

But it is a Fitzgerald quote alright, as Rich and the 
rest have surmised -- from the first page of, yes, The 
Crack-Up (which Deleuze & Guattari loved the most among 
the texts by their darling FSF): \'[T]he test of a first-
rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposite 
ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain 
the ability to function.\'

(But now I have to be elsewhere again, and don\'t have 
time to return to my Thursday\'s post on Kovalevskaya, 
Taussky, and Noether -- so, please, Rich: S H O O T )


Heikki