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>From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
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Subject: Re: Existence
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Date: 8 Dec 91 03:22:59 GMT
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In article <1991Dec7.070815.6257@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
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>bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:
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>>What difference does it make whether the number pi "exists"?
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>None whatsoever to the hoi polloi.  What the fuck are you doing posting to
>a philosiophy newsgroup?

Congratulations, Mikhail; you've broadened my day.  Do you realize that
you're probably the first man since Louis XIV to use the phrase "hoi polloi"
in a non-ironic context?  A historic achievement, indeed, and the Nobel
Committee will likely soon come calling, but, just out of curiosity, do you
have any French blood?  Ancestors ravished by the Napoleonic hordes,
perhaps, back in the days when Frenchmen were Real Men, walked tall on their
hind legs and toted great Gothic egoes the size of Notre Dame?  It would add
a piquant footnote to the already pungent and witty saga of your brilliant
existence.

c


