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Uh, Paul, I assume that you mean Robert Morris the younger? Or his dad? If the younger, I'd think you're well equipped with at least one example where he was less that perfectly right about something.
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My asian religions prof. spent a bunch of years of her life studying the text and she was telling us this. Apparently some people still think it's an esoteric text, but they are in the minority. Unfortunately I don't have any references to back it up, and none of the translations I have sitting in front of me mention it in the forward. And of course it's impossible to find anything via Google only because there are s…
If it isn't too much trouble, I'd be very interested to hear more about that. I'm no scholar, but I find Taoism and the Tao Te Ching fascinating. I would understand it being partly satirical of prevailing thought, whilst being esoteric, but it being a simple satire would be quite amazing to me. Perhaps the esoterism is an artifact of translation/interpolation ;)
I was hoping to see Feynman on this list (especially after reading the two qualities that these people had in common). Good read, though.
Have you read The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander? I'd very much like to hear your opinions and comments on the book series. And also see, whether he would appear on your next list of heroes. He is definitely on mine.
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If it isn't too much trouble, I'd be very interested to hear more about that. I'm no scholar, but I find Taoism and the Tao Te Ching fascinating. I would understand it being partly satirical of prevailing thought, whilst being esoteric, but it being a simple satire would be quite amazing to me. Perhaps the esoterism is an artifact of translation/interpolation ;)
I sent her an email, I'll let you know if I get a reply. Failing that this might involve, god forbid, going to a library.
Post WWII: Churchill's Grandson (after running into his office without knocking): "Grand papa, is it true that you're the greatest man in the world?"
Churchill: "Yes, now bugger off."
Makes sense, from his biography: every morning, 6 days a week, year after year for decades, he would sit down and churn out some 10-20-30 pages of new or edited prose, without fail. Much of it ineffable lightness, some of it a bit clunky, but on the whole an incredible body of work.
Here, in a somewhat explaining-the-joke kind of criticism, is still some pretty rummy stuff about Plum:
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/nec/leimberg1312.htm
He had a rather sad life, but he was a great artist.
Also worth noting that a Calder sculpture is on the cover of a common Algorithms book: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WDWECWVCL._SS500_.jp...
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Do you mean he made Nazi propaganda?
No, that would have been Lord Haw Haw and Ezra Pound who made propaganda broadcasts for the fascists. It wasn't as though Wodehouse had shaken hands with Hitler. He merely talked about what his internment was like, and he only made about five broadcasts. Even so, I think he was incredibly naïve of him to do this, given that by 1940, the Germans hadn't simply crossed the line into uncivilized conduct, they had gleeful…
I did not realize that about Ezra Pound. Now I see why people like GK Chesterton and CS Lewis disliked TS Elliot (protege of Pound) so much.
