Aaron Haspel

Superfluous. Supercilious. Superannuated. Everything:

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Comedies end in marriage and tragedies in death, not because marriage is comic and death tragic, but precisely the opposite.

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A nation of shopkeepers will defeat a nation of warriors every day of the week and twice on Sunday, when the shops are closed.

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@rougeux I used the raw wikisource, which was generally excellent, though not without its quirks. The gaps, notably the topic index and some of the ancillary material, I plugged with OCR, which caused me no problems: if you tune the settings properly Claude reads better than we do.

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Britannica's 11th edition is the best encyclopedia ever written. I always wanted a proper online version, so I built one:
https://t.co/Qjxa3jKxRx

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@rougeux I may write it up as a technical appendix to the site itself. What I can tell you is that it's mostly Python, a bit of JS on the display side, and that I didn't write a solitary line of it myself.

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@rougeux The agents make it possible. With Claude I did it in less than a month; without it I couldn't have done it at all.

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@p_bruce73752 Lewis has a point, but English Literature in the Sixteenth Century evinces his own rather pronounced taste for sugared strawberries.

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Surfeit, n. A group of poets.

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The idealist wants extra credit for the wrong answer.

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The surest way to get something done is to have something else that you absolutely have to do.

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@SpeakingBee It is such a nasty racket that it almost makes me feel sorry for academics.

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Academic press: Books that no one will read at prices that no one will pay.

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@lunedejeuner As you are, like me, a Nightmare Alley person, I think Point Blank will be up your alley. I share your dislike for Hepburn after about, say, 1945, when her mannerisms overcame her charm.

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All of the movies Katharine Hepburn made with Cary Grant are better than any of the movies she made with Spencer Tracy.

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Dijkstra remarked that no human is intelligent enough to program a computer, and all good programming practice is a recognition of this fact. Now we have machines that are. Whither good programming practice?

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@lunedejeuner It's dangerous to recommend anything to someone you don't know, but you asked.

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Those were both from me so I consider myself redeemed in part. The three main actresses in the movie were all blondes: Joan Blondell, the old carny and the drunk's wife; Coleen Gray, the loyal and long-suffering girlfriend; and Helen Walker, the psychiatrist. You're probably thinking of Gray. The remake is a dog.

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@lunedejeuner I like it but I have higher tolerance for Hepburn than most. Did you like any of the others? Bringing Up Baby is by far the best of the lot.

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It's surface all the way down.

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Believing is seeing.

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You only get so many chances to keep your mouth shut.

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Sanity is less a particular outlook than a practiced aversion to the multifarious forms of crazy.