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Brad McFall
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Message 73 of 80 (346530)
09-04-2006 6:58 PM
Reply to: Message 72 by Archer Opteryx
09-04-2006 6:25 PM


Re: Joycean prose
Thanks but I do not live on PLANET Pluto but somewhere on this page.
Robin is probably correct that there are some double parens here.
If I find an anagram in a "Y"chromsome, I'll let ya all know.
Thanks for the comments all.

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Brad McFall
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Posts: 3428
From: Ithaca,NY, USA
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Message 74 of 80 (346533)
09-04-2006 7:05 PM
Reply to: Message 43 by lfen
05-17-2006 2:45 AM


Re: Here's another one...
Here's one that never made it onto Evc
This includes my son!!

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Brad McFall
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Posts: 3428
From: Ithaca,NY, USA
Joined: 12-20-2001


Message 76 of 80 (346538)
09-04-2006 7:20 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by Parasomnium
05-01-2006 7:30 PM


Re: Brad's shorthand
This is a good observation Para.
It is not some pathological defiency but a mental recognition that came on me one day in the Hunterdon County Library when I was a young teen.
There is only one organism. You and me say. There is not ONE organic biology however. The easiest way to keep track of the differences between various versions of biology has been for me to associate the mentally retained verity with an author's name somatically.
So, overtime I come to understand a particular biologist better the better I come to understand myself. This would not work for physics because the object of physics *may* always be outside the flesh.
I am older now and over the years the names do function as shortcuts but ones I can be as confident as using as I do my most up to date thought.
But when I use other people's names rather than mine that means that the reader COULD physiologically come to mentally take in the information embeded in my reading by also reading the names.
It was the biology of "ERNST MAYR" that 'forced' me into this policy (one could simply keep the different "theories" or "views" in mind as one would do in another discipline )because his position was so distinct and different than any other biologist that I read that only his name worked to keep straight in my mind what was different though.
Edited by Brad McFall, : chemistry got in the way

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