Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: >> "All that he had learned" meaning his delusions and psychoses? > Indeed. If a revelation is unconnected to reality, it's misleading to > say that one has “learned” it.... > When someone describes the ill effects their mental illness produced, I > find it rather condescending for an observer to express regret that > the person no longer experiences those ill effects.
The story reminded me of "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar, about mathematician John Nash who suffered from mental illness in the 1970s-80's(?) but later recovered and won the Nobel Prize in economics. The book is excellent and I recommend it if you find that sort of thing interesting. They made a movie from it that was popular but I gather was Hollywood-fluffified as one could expect (I haven't seen it). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
