This Week in Google Alerts: Wolfean dreams

Gwern Branwen · 07 Nov 2014, 23:48 · from 2014-November.txt.gz

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From: gwern at gwern.net (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 18:48:40 -0500
Subject: (urth) This Week in Google Alerts: Wolfean dreams
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http://crookedtimber.org/2014/11/06/philosopher-dreams-of-saving-electric-cats/#comment-581712

> Sick right now but not on sufficient drugs to do much other than make me a bit sleepy. Long ago, in grad school, I was seriously hurt in a climbing accident, had surgery and was in the hospital for several weeks on lots of narcotics. Read Wolfe?s Shadow of the Torturer. De Quincey had nothing on my dreams. Can?t say I got any meaningful work done.

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