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Gwern Branwen · 05 Mar 2010, 21:22 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:22:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) Query
In-Reply-To: <513638.99613.qm at web50705.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <e8e9702e1003051300g6bdd7deer7ef78b49cfe44e86 at mail.gmail.com>
	<513638.99613.qm at web50705.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <cbf55b101003051322n1bcf859dwec1b26076d15d86b at mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Very Borgesian, I believe.
>
> Jerry Friedman

Dan Simmons, in the introduction to the first story in _Prayers to
Broken Stones_, tells a funny story about Harlan Ellison wherein he
gives much the same advice.

-- 
gwern

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