From: Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com>
To: Dana Scott <dana.scott@cs.cmu.edu>, categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Dangerous knowledge
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:29:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NFRzI-00047B-Pt@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dana Scott <dana.scott@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I think the premise of the work is silly.
I agree; it seems to be an urban legend that to be a great
artist--whether a musician, painter, mathematician, or what have
you--one has to be mentally unstable. Perhaps it's a way for people
to excuse themselves for never creating a work of great beauty.
--
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-01 0:29 Mike Stay [this message]
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2009-12-03 14:58 jim stasheff
2009-12-03 23:56 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2009-11-29 23:31 Joyal, André
2009-11-30 16:51 ` Mike Stay
2009-11-30 23:37 ` Dana Scott
2009-12-01 1:40 ` Alex Hoffnung
2009-12-01 14:26 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-01 14:30 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-01 2:32 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-01 15:13 ` Alex Hoffnung
2009-12-01 16:43 ` Robert Seely
2009-12-02 17:27 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-01 13:56 ` Charles Wells
2009-12-02 2:16 ` John Baez
2009-12-06 18:46 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-07 2:46 ` Joyal, André
2009-12-07 13:46 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-08 19:15 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-07 17:18 ` Steve Vickers
2009-12-10 18:03 ` Dangerous_knowledge Joyal, André
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