modeling reality

[Daniel F. Vukovich]

Cut and pasted from a friend's old email.  Thanks to Doug and Daniel for 
the hilarity.
Dont know the novel,  of VS's stuff have only read some of  his slim 
volume, *Suitable Boy*...

Here's a brief description of an economist at a party. I've taken it from
Vikram Seth's first novel:

While around him voices rise and fall
In oral goulash, Occam's call
Leaches his vision of variety:
He mumbles, "In all likelihood
An n-dimensional matrix could
Succinctly summarize society..."
(Poor Kim Tarvesh--we must recall
He's an economist after all.)

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Daniel F. Vukovich
Dept. of English; The Unit for Criticism
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
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