[lit-ideas] Re: How long is the coast of Britain?
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:19:54 +0100 (BST)
--- 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
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