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How moral are you?
The test linked to here is pretty strange. Apparently I'm pretty immoral; I scored very very low on the interference and universalizing factors.
4:19:49 PM Permalink
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Paying the taxes
Philip Greenspun quoted today something Garrison Keillor said on
Prairie Home Companion over the weekend: if you're sending a check to
the IRS, put extra stamps on it because it's going all the way to Iraq.
9:29:54 AM Permalink
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Did Nabokov Suffer From Cryptomnesia?. "An intriguing development on the Nabokov front, a crypto-scandal widely reported in Europe, but not much here: Lolita is causing trouble again. At least, that’s been the way it’s been portrayed in the European press, which has overheatedly raised the specter of "plagiarism": Did Vladimir Nabokov lift the controversial plot, indeed the very name of Lolita, from a 1916 German short story called "Lolita"?
But more interestingly, there are fascinating implications for understanding Pale Fire, which followed Lolita seven years later. And then there's "cryptomnesia." —Ron Rosenbaum, New York Observer [Follow Me Here...]
8:58:17 AM Permalink
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