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THE END 1 The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory; Pierre Duhem; Atheneum 1962,pg. 55
A certain Dr. Husak at Charles University in Prague has recently extended my model to one in which coordinates take values in an arbitrary Clifford algebra.
The Fundamental Equation has not been included in this account, which is for the general reader.
A flaw in this construction was discovered on June 14, 1970 .
Somerset Maughham obviously swiped the plot from a Jewish acquaintance for his version in "Quartet".
Proven by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. See" The Sound Patterns of English", HarperRow, 1968
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in its Classic Comics formulation.
Love and Mathematics: Sofya Kovalevskaya , pg. 33 ; by Pelageya Kochina, Mir Publishers, 1985 ; quotation taken from Nikitenko, A.V. , Diary of Aleksandr Vasilievitch Nikitenko
Lafcadios Adventures ( Les Caves du Vatican) . It is quite possible that my unconscious was putting some of the ideas from this book into practice.
Wanamakers is to Philadelphia as Filenes is to Boston.
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate , W.W. Norton, 1991)
The above remarks apply equally well to articles such as this one written in times of peace.
Chardins other claim to fame is as a co-conspirator in the Piltdown Man hoax. 31 Volume II, SALEM PRESS, 1996, pg. 903
The International Conference of the Slice Homology Association

THE GRADIENT .

Unhappily the scritching of my piece of chalk against the slate had triggered an infernal yowling in all the cages. There was nothing to be done for it apart from mumbling apologies over and over again like an obsequious servant. I hastened to finish up, then walked back to the lectern.

Stepping up to the podium I spoke once more into the microphone.

" Distinguished friends! Learned colleagues! "

Once more it developed that it wasn't going to be easy. Just about then the Urang-Otang reached high up in the rafters for a bit of loose wiring, yanked it down and began chomping on it. There was a hiss, a dense cloud of smoke, and the auditorium was plunged in darkness. Luckily the animal itself was unhurt. Another delay of half an hour ensued while janitors and technicians carried in lanterns and lamps. A flashlight was handed over to me so I could continue reading my notes. After thanking everyone in the audience for bearing with me through every conceivable difficulty, I reminded them that a theater company with its crew was expected to arrive within the hour. This obliged me to make a considerable truncation of my intended presentation That was not altogether a bad thing however, given that the gist of what I had to say was briefly told.

Once again I lifted up the sheet of typescript close to my face:

" Distinguished friends! Learned colleagues! Beloved family ! It has been my good fortune to be the one to first discover that the Biological Sciences have grievously erred, these past hundred years, in obstinately placing the arrowhead of the Gradient of Evolution on the wrong end of the shaft!! "

I raced back to the blackboard, using the sleeve of my smock to quickly rub out the thick triangular wedge to the right of the gradient then built another one at the left , grazing the top of the word "Monkeys":

An evil shriek ripped through the auditorium : Cyrus Yaw-Yawn's mother was having her last epileptic seizure. Bob Boolean's face was lowered and crushed between his hands; he was crying. Students from every department were throwing things at me, umbrellas, books, shoes. Boos, howls and other forms of execration rained down from all directions.

Dr. Jan van Clees had jumped out of his seat. Rollicking with malicious glee, he went about ordering his crew of attendants to hurry down the aisles and kidnap me. Once again I would have to make a run for my life. By the time they had descended to the center of the auditorium they were grappling with the students and faculty of Mathematics, united in their determination to keep them from capturing me.

As Mom gazed winsomely at some indistinct place at the top of the proscenium arch above the stage, petrified by the inexorable Will of God, President Hardball leaned over to her and , his face bearing a look of gratification for which he was scarcely to be blamed, gingerly lifted the diploma out of her lifeless hands and tore it in two.

All hell broke loose as I ran out the back exit.

THE END

1The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory; Pierre Duhem; Atheneum 1962,pg. 55

2Note that modern mathematics does allow for other alternatives under certain conditions .

3 A certain Dr. Husak at Charles University in Prague has recently extended my model to one in which coordinates take values in an arbitrary Clifford algebra.

4It also works with the Kerr model and in anti-de Sitter space, but not in the Friedman model. No decision has been made on the Gödel model

5There was a long and bitter precedence quarrel between myself and some astrophysicist in Fiji around the invention of this ingenious technique. I conceded defeat only because Hans Mengenlehre, then department chairman at Zelosophic U., convinced me that mathematical physics in Fiji needed all the help it could get.

6The Fundamental Equation has not been included in this account, which is for the general reader.

7Private communication with David Bohm

8One was discovered on April 3rd, 1967.

9 A flaw in this construction was discovered on June 14, 1970 .

10The tradition begins with Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica and Lorenzo DaPonte's Italian academy.

11Somerset Maughham obviously swiped the plot from a Jewish acquaintance for his version in "Quartet".

12The question of whether they were ignorant because the priests guarded their knowledge will not be broached here.

13no relation to Hamlet's uncle. cf. Robert Graves

14The cello concerto excepted.

15An idea which the English fancy they've invented

16Proven by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. See" The Sound Patterns of English", Harper&Row, 1968

17Just because a gang of Papists tried to mug her, the Thirty Years War should not be held against her.

18that is to say, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in its Classic Comics formulation.

19 " The Nizhny Novgorad provincial governor identifies as nihilists all women who 'wear round hats, blue glasses, hoods that conceal their short hair and do not wear crinolines' ; he orders the police to arrest them, make them take off all their garments and, if they resist, to exile them from the province" ...

Love and Mathematics: Sofya Kovalevskaya , pg. 33 ; by Pelageya Kochina, Mir Publishers, 1985 ; quotation taken from Nikitenko, A.V. , Diary of Aleksandr Vasilievitch Nikitenko ; 1891, pgs. 563-592

20My extracurricular reading at the time included André Gide's novel 'Lafcadio's Adventures' ( Les Caves du Vatican) . It is quite possible that my unconscious was putting some of the ideas from this book into practice.

21A notion which, since the advent of Quantum Theory can no longer be applied without reservations!

22"..there are local enclaves whose direction seems opposed to that of the universe at large, and in which there is a limited and temporary tendency for organization to increase. Life finds its home in some of these enclaves."

Norbert Wiener: "The Human Use of Human Beings" 1954 , pg. 12. DaCapo Paperback. On page 40 Wiener takes a somewhat different stance: " In a very real sense we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet."

23Wanamaker's is to Philadelphia as Filene's is to Boston.

24" Jacobi-Siegel methods in the classification of equations of mixed character"- Quadrature , Vol.VII#6, June 1953, pgs. 153-197

25I visited the farm a few times, though I was never given a work assignment there. It was never clear to me whether farming was considered therapeutic or whether Marigold Meadows, strapped for cash though charging the families of its inmates astronomical fees, merely wanted to save on the cost of vegetables. In a short time the question itself became irrelevant.

26Throughout the decade (1953-63), while D. Ewen Cameron was president of the American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations, president of the World Association of Psychiatrists, director of the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal,chairman of the department of psychiatry at McGill University and professor of psychiatry at Albany Medical College, he was receiving funds from the CIA to run torture chambers at the Allen Institute, set up to study brain-washing and memory destroying experiments on his patients while charging their families exorbitant fees. (John Marks: The Search for the Manchurian Candidate , W.W. Norton, 1991)

27As there is clearly more coming , I invite the reader to exercise his imagination in reconstructing the way it was done.

28The above remarks apply equally well to articles such as this one written in times of peace.

29Although I once knew a mathematician who took an Etch-A-Sketch toy with him into the bathroom of the Zelosophic Mathematics Department.

30 Chardin's other claim to fame is as a co-conspirator in the Piltdown Man hoax.

31Volume II, SALEM PRESS, 1996, pg. 903

32It is traditional to give the names of trees to Philadelphia's streets . This name had no doubt by suggested by its philosophical catchet.

33The International Conference of the Slice Homology Association

34 The mortification of being waylaid by a security guard as I left the Math-Physics building late one night, still rankled . He'd obliged me to go with him to the Campus Security office to "verify my claim that I was a bona fide member of the academic community"!

35Drifting around the university system one eventually realizes that the Mathematics Departments are almost always on the upper floors, while things like Physics, Chemistry, Anthropology, etc., fill up the lower ones. The reasons are simple : for most of the time physicists have their feet on the ground while mathematicians have their heads in the clouds.

36Nor was there much chance that he might deserve mention in a footnote stating something like: " Robert Boolean ( no relation to the English logician of approximately the same name) " . This may in fact be the only such footnote in existence

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