P/NP? tidbit learned 'cause of Alice books

Rich Clavey antizoyd at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 11 21:58:21 CDT 2009


"He speaks of a jail of mirrors; of a labyrinth without a center; of a man devoured by metal automatons; of a tree that grows feathers...something in Chesterton's personality leaned toward the nightmarish, something secret, and blind, and central."
                       ---Jorge Luis Borges
Being a blurb on the back of the 1971 edition of The Man Who Was Thursday, Ballantine ed.
Which I remembered I had after reading this thread. So I searched my stacks, dusted it off. I was looking for something to take up my reading time until Aug...guess I found it. I can't remember a thing about it since I read it in 71....but it's also about anarchists I hear....
Rich

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: P/NP? tidbit learned 'cause of Alice books
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 8:34 PM
> 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.



      



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