I knew nothing about James Agee and what Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was about (it was about poor sharecroppers during the Depression, so an ironic title), but the phrase and author’s name stuck with me.
TerryRiley Responsible for the minimalism/new tonality track in contemporary music
JeromeBruner Chided Chomsky’s LAD for failing to recognize LASS
DorothyParker Poet, writer 1893-1967
ReneDescartes Philosopher, mathematician 1596-1650
AndrewPlotkin Interactive fiction, narrative game developer 1970-
FerdinanddeLesseps Suez Canal builder and father of 17, 1805-1894
JohnSearle AI skeptic, promoter of Chinese Room
JaneAusten ‘A truth universally acknowledged ..’
ImmanuelKant 1724-1804 Immensely ponderous, but influential, systematic thinker
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