> On 26/06/2013 9:19 AM, Mark Janssen wrote: >> >> Did you ever hear of the Glass Bead Game? > > Which was Hesse's condemnation of the > pure-academic-understanding-unbound-by-pragmatic-use approach as mental > masturbation,
It was not. He was conflicted. On the one hand he knew the enterprise was noble, but on the other he saw it could lead to crystal palaces that were good to nobody. -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list