[lit-ideas] Re: How long is the coast of Britain?
- From: "Richard Henninge" <RichardHenninge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:24:52 +0200
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From: "Donal McEvoy" <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 3:19 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: How long is the coast of Britain?
--- On Sun, 24/10/10, Richard Henninge <RichardHenninge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If there's any redemption in fair play, tit-for-tat, and an
immediate comebacker correction, you probably meant "Raymond
Carver" in the subject line of your subsequent "Jane
Austen..." post.
No, I meant "John Carver" but I was probably confusing him with Raymond
Cheever. Unlike the tree/bread confusion, this mistake is easily enough made
as they were both neurotic men, narcissistic, egocentric, friendless, and so
deeply involved in their own defensive illusions that they each invented a
manic-depressive wife as they battled with the bottle. While under the
influence at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, it is said they themselves
frequently mistook themselves for each other, and were only saved from
almost certain ego-death by only one being bi-sexual, the other of no fixed
orientation whatsoever.
As to "tit-for-tat", I am unsure if there's any redemption in it but it has
been shown by game theory to be among the best Evolutionarily Stable
Strategies, although "two-tits-for-a-tat" is generally better. I am not
making this up.
Donal
........ It's _John_ Cheever and _Raymond_ Carver--who'll be the first to
blink and check Wikipedia? And did you understand Palma's reference to Baker
(?) and cicadas? Is his Baker Dawkins or is he talking about baker brown
cicadas?
At a loss for evidence, evidently,
Richard Henninge
University of Mainz
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