Fifth Head of Cerberus surfaces again

'My cohort's education is always foremost in my mind, but in the past I've typically resorted to misdirections that (once discovered) set the project back substantially. This time - and I recognize that this is strange - I am actually taking his predilections into account. Before, I would have flopped a book like The Fifth Head of Cerberus onto his Intuos and said "eat this, dog." I'm taking a different tack now, a breadcrumb trail, so that his mind is starving at the end of each book, and into that ravenous mind I will continuously heap works of burning fire and terrible consequence.'

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote: 'My cohort's education is always foremost in my mind, but in the past I've typically resorted to misdirections that (once discovered) set the project back substantially. This time - and I recognize that this is strange - I am actually taking his predilections into account. Before, I would have flopped a book like The Fifth Head of Cerberus onto his Intuos and said "eat this, dog." I'm taking a different tack now, a breadcrumb trail, so that his mind is starving at the end of each book, and into that ravenous mind I will continuously heap works of burning fire and terrible consequence.'

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/1/13/ It's funny because the insult is 'dog'. But it's also worth noting that the link is to Wikipedia. Since penny-arcade.com records a few hundred thousand hits a day ( http://www.statsaholic.com/penny-arcade.com ), odds are good that this is most of the readers' first exposure to Wolfe. It will be interesting to keep an eye on http://stats.grok.se/en/201001/The_Fifth_Head_of_Cerberus and see just how much the article traffic spikes. If it doesn't go to at least a thousand, I will be disapointed :) -- gwern _______________________________________________