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"At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland,
Miss Jean Brodie--teacher extraordinaire--is unmistakably, and
outspokenly, in her prime.

She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching
methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in
her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and--most
importantly--in her dedication to her girls.

And her girls--the students she selects to be her creme de la
creme--are devoted to Miss Brodie.

Each member of the "Brodie set"--Eunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and
Sandy--is "famous for something", and Miss Brodie strives to bring out
the best in each, and to instill in each an independence, passion, and
ambition surpassing her own.

"Safety does not come first," Miss Brodie advises her girls. "Goodness,
Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me." And they do. But one of her
girls will betray her."

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"Arrest of development does not imply that things have become static,
and that from thenceforth the person will be just the same as he was at
the time that development was arrested.
....
The 'lonely' child, the child who cannot obtain the presence and
participation, however passive, of elder folk, inevitably has a very
rich fantasy life ~ that is, he makes up for the real deficiencies by
multiplying the so ~ called imaginary personifications which fill his
mind and influence his behavior."

~ Harry Stack Sullivan,
From "The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry"
[p. 217, 223]

"Prior to the seventeenth century
The laws of probability were defined
By the intuition and experience of gamblers,

But Pascal entered into an exchange of letters
With Fermat with the aim of discovering
The mathematical rules
That more accurately describe the laws of chance.

Three centuries later
Bertrand Russell would comment
On this apparent oxymoron ~

'How dare we speak of the laws of chance?
Is not chance the antithesis of all law?""

~ Simon Singh,
From "Fermat's Enigma"
[p. 41]

"After examining the gate for a moment,
Nashe discovered a small white button lodged
In one of the stone pillars
That supported the ironwork.

He assumed that it was connected to a bell
In the house and pushed it with the tip
Of his index finger.

Hearing no sound, he pushed once again for good measure,
Just to make sure it wasn't
Supposed to ring from the outside."

~ Paul Auster,
From "The Music of Chance"
[p. 65]

Twittering One wrote:
"Prior to the seventeenth century
The laws of probability were defined
By the intuition and experience of gamblers,

But Pascal entered into an exchange of letters
With Fermat with the aim of discovering
The mathematical rules
That more accurately describe the laws of chance.

Three centuries later
Bertrand Russell would comment
On this apparent oxymoron ~

'How dare we speak of the laws of chance?
Is not chance the antithesis of all law?""

~ Simon Singh,
From "Fermat's Enigma"
[p. 41]

"Nearly all 'solutions' are written on a very elementary level
(using the notions of high school mathematics and perhaps some
undigested papers in number theory), but can nevertheless be very
comlicated to understand. Socially, the senders are often persons with
a technical education but a failed career who try to find success with
a proof of the Fermat problem. I gave some of the manuscripts to
physicians who diagnosed heavy schizophrenia.

One condition of Wolfskehl's last will was that ... "

~ Simon Singh,
From "Fermat's Enigma"
[p. 295 - 296]

nightbat is not a kook.
Suggesting that he is such is erroneous and deliberately misleading.
He does not believe what he claims as being hard fact.

He provides fiction. He is sincere about contributing a creative
environment.
Having his intent deliberately and systematically subverted hurts him
deeply.

I am sympathetic to kooks. I understand some of them. Put bluntly,
nightbat is not that way. He does not protest the facts, enough.

RL

"nightbat is not
A kook."
~ Raving

"Can bat cook?"
~ Twittering

"If not, call Ms.
Karin Cook, pronto! Pronto! Pronto! Pronto! A Starry
Star from Harrison Too ~ !"
~ Folly

"'... the Akademie had to publish the announcement
of the prize yearly
in the main mathematical periodicals.

But already after the first years
the periodicals refused to print the announcements ,
because they were overflowed by letters
and crazy manuscripts.

I hope that this information is of interest to you.

Yours sincerely,
F. Schlichting'

Appendix 8. The Axioms of Arithmetic"

~ Simon Singh,
From "Fermat's Enigma"
[p. 296-7]