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Matt,

Somehow I missed your United Fruit reference. Can you send me that post the Twain list?

Thanks,

Denis

> On Jun 10, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Matthew Seybold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Matt Seybold
> Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies
> Elmira College
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> MattSeybold.com <http://mattseybold.com/>
Denis Donovan

PS: my Luria quote below should be of more than passing interest to historians and philosophers of science. In many years no one has ever asked about it. Given our current American president, who is blessed with extraordinary knowledge in the absence of any interest in justified true belief, it should be all the more relevant.

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Времена сложные, дураков много.
—  Алексaндр Романович Лурия

These are complex times, many fools around.

Alexandr Romanovich Luria in:
Goldberg, Elkhanon (2001). The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind.
New York: Oxford University Press, p. 16.

Perhaps Goldberg should have listened to Luria … and … 

One might be reasonably tempted to think that perhaps Luria was saying something
more fundamental to Goldberg than just that one could work in greater peace if one joined the Party … 

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