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ecstatic So far, a good day: Pyramid magazine has published a piece of mine - a re-doing of Eihort for COC
"Dr. Allred was, at 29 years old, an utterly brilliant mathematician. He had stunned his older colleagues at M.I.T. with tantalizing new ideas in geometry. The final proofs were decades away, of course, but they said he was making 'amazing' progress.
"They also said he was making them uneasy with his increasingly odd behavior. When he wasn't feverishly working on his ideas in his office he was ranting and raving. He threw objects around his room, and walked in endless, unseen patterns while 'thinking aloud.' All his chalkboards were filled with seemingly-nonsensical digressions, but Allred insisted that they tied into his theories -- he just needed more time to prove it.
"He never got that time. After he didn't show up at work for two days in a row, they found him dead at home -- slumped over the desk in his study. A heart attack or an embolism brought by stress, we thought. Perhaps a tumor.
"But when we opened him up on the autopsy table, we found that his skull was perfectly hollow: his brain had simply vanished . . . "
The article is here, but you have to be a subscriber to read it. (And why aren't you, eh? EH?)
I also discovered, courtesy of bank one's online service, that a certain check DID clear. So now I have to call Comcast, make sure everything's hunky-dory and pay the remainder of the current bill (with last month's charges on it) over the phone.
And then... the phone call to the bookstore...
Anonymous
August 8 2005, 14:03:07 UTC 6 years ago
Sounds like COC meets...
...the movie "A Beautiful Mind"...MZ
August 8 2005, 15:24:01 UTC 6 years ago
Re: Sounds like COC meets...
You COULD do that with what I wrote - in fact, it would be a very inspirational movie to watch, first (except for his actually getting the problem under control, eventually... no luck with that when you've got a GOO in your head!)How's the road to LV looking?
August 9 2005, 20:25:00 UTC 6 years ago