P/NP? tidbit learned 'cause of Alice books

[Charles Albert]

The book offers an elegant, devilishly clever, and ultimately irresistible
challenge to atheism.


Jonathan Lethem wrote the introduction to a recent release, as well as a
review in NYRB.


love,
cfa



On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> "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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