On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:13 AM David Mertz, Ph.D. <david.mertz@gmail.com> wrote:
Everyone in this thread should absolutely read Lewis Caroll's delightful and "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles."  It's a very short 3-page story that addressed exactly this topic in 1895... even before Guido's Time Machine.

One free copy of the public domain work is at:



That he's mad, 'tis true,
'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis, 'tis true

-- Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2


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Ricky.

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