Re: Just finished reading of "What’s New In Python 3.0"

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:59 PM, n00m <n00m at narod.ru> wrote:

> Fitzgerald had been an alcoholic since his college days, and became
> notorious during the 1920s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking,
> leaving him in poor health by the late 1930s. According to Zelda's
> biographer, Nancy Milford, Scott claimed that he had contracted
> tuberculosis, but Milford dismisses it as a pretext to cover his
> drinking problems. However, Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli
> contends that Fitzgerald did in fact have recurring tuberculosis, and
> Nancy Milford reports that Fitzgerald biographer Arthur Mizener said
> that Scott suffered a mild attack of tuberculosis in 1919, and in 1929
> he had "what proved to be a tubercular hemorrhage". It has been said
> that the hemorrhage was caused by bleeding from esophageal varices.
>
N00m?  That's an ad-hominem against your own quote.  :)  You're illustrating
your point?

Yes, being able to maintain two or more competing, and sometimes even
conflicting, hypotheses in one's mind at the same time is crucial to the
scientific method.  Whether one person did so while drinking too much or
not.
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