P/NP? tidbit learned 'cause of Alice books
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 20:34:33 CDT 2009
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> laughing.....no apologies even close to necessary.....
> I think you are still somehow right.....yes, apologist is a word
> but I think it may not be applied properly to Chesterton.....
What got me off track was that apologist sounds like he was
apologizing, but as I thought about it the usage sounded more and more
proper.
>
> Newman was an apologist for Catholicism, maybe, as a convert, but
> Chesterton was just a writer about, an essayist from within, one might say.
Apologia pro vita mea.
>
> Pynchon may be some kind of Buddhist, we think, but he isn't an apologist for it, for example.
No, he has too many other things to apologize for.
Just kidding.
P
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