GUTs and so on

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 24 Aug 2010, 20:34 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:34:48 -0700
Subject: (urth) GUTs and so on
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=WhxCStPvwQ4w-JaVYaOuikcJ7=DgXWDxABSCN at mail.gmail.com>

Sometimes ... and I want to be clear that I'm not singling anyone out
here ... nor is this a recent but rather a recurring thing ... I get
the feeling that there's a competition going on, whose rules I am
unaware of, but the objective of which seems to be the erection and
successful support of the most baroque and prima facie implausible
theory concerning some Lupine matter; the prize being simply the gasps
and awed admiration of our fellow Wolfeans, and that this competition
is rather like a circus act, in that the value is not in the thing
done but in its difficulty.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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