Hitchens responds to critics

[Ken Hanly]

Russell was talking about thinking about the foundations of mathematics
wasnt he? When I was a teenager I often thought about nothing but sex all
day long. I thought perhaps I was  a pervert. I am relieved to find out I
was actually a great thinker...

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: Hitchens responds to critics


>
> >
> >Martin Heidegger thought that the true test of a great mind was to hold
> >one single thought in mind, for a whole day. But then he was weird.
> >
>
> There's something to that. Most people never have a single thought in mind
> their whole lives.
>
> Russell said that, while writing the Principia Mathematica with Whitehead,
> about three seconds of hard thinking a day would exhaust him.
>
> jks
>
> >In message <87ite75bew.fsf at lackawana.kippona.com>, news at kippona.com
> >writes
> > >Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
> > >
> > >> Steve Perry wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >the fitz observation you cite is, appropriately enough, from 'the
> >crack-up.'
> > >>
> > >> Anyone have the exact wording?
> > >>
> > >> Doug
> > >
> > >"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
> > >opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
> > >ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see
> > >that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them
> > >otherwise."
> > >
> > >                               -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
> > >                               The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson
> > >
> > >Chris
> >
> >--
> >James Heartfield
>
>
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