A few horse positions may be subject to change as I go, but that is the gist of it.

This “natural” definition comes dangerously close to what M. Gromov had in mind, I believe, when he warned us, during the conference, that objects, definitions, or questions which look natural at first glance may in fact “be stupid.”

Once in “angry” mode, it will remain angry, even if the direct irritation parameter is considerably reduced.

Bloom’s farts are usually described as commenting on the hollow rhetoric and narrow nationalism of Robert Emmet’s last words (more rhetoric!); but Bloom’s fundamental sounds perhaps act also as a summary judgment on the romantic notion of musical prose; they are Bloom’s own “chamber music.”

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The book has some good descriptions of what his mind felt like (wasp nest, upper part of brain being replaced by fluids, mainspring busted).

I particularly liked the three elves on the packet. I wanted to have elves like that, to keep as pets. Snap, Crackle and Pop would be useful little helpers for me.

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney.

Batman is not real. Military funerals are real.

In 1947, he moved to the U.S. to work on a Chinese-English dictionary project at Harvard, but was fired for embedding too many quotes from Finnegans Wake in the entries.

Multibody dynamic simulations using evolutionary robotic optimization approaches appear to provide reliable estimates for the maximum running speeds of extant animals.