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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.
-- 
Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com
http://math.ucr.edu/~mike
http://reperiendi.wordpress.com


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             reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01  0:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01  0:29 Mike Stay [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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