advice from don b is disseminated in the form of an answer to a question about don b

[dzlk]

This is neat.Brian Kiteley: Barthelme had no set reading list that I can recall. He simply said, "Read all of Western philosophy, for starters, then read some history, anthropology, history of science." I've read a reaction that a Johns Hopkins class had to this command (which was similar to the one he made to us). A student there said, "But we

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[pastorlenny]

There will be plenty of time for sleep later.

[dzlk]

If only we could read in our sleep, we'd be set.

Especially ECB policy documents. If they were written to be assimilated most efficiently in some sort of REM state they'd be notable for having the power to actually create the ideal conditions for their reception.

[pastorlenny]

It's amazing that they have to come up with so many rules just to ensure that insolvency is achieved incrementally and with plausible deniability.

[dzlk]

Insolvency can't be achieved all at once, that'd leave no time to speculate about who's going to be the next to go!