> He would have known that his offence was against the law and that he would be prosecuted.
That specific bit of reasoning is very likely wrong.
The circumstances of Turings investigation and arrest started with Turing going to the police to report that had been robbed by a person considered to be a rent boy.
If he had the slightest notion of how homosexual behaviour was dealt with by the regular police and that he would be the main subject of interest rather than the robber he would not have reported the theft.
Turing very much came from a class isolated from common consequences, he spent his youth at an elite school and then university, later at Bletchley Park, all places where lads with an odd bent were not at all uncommon, largely tolerated although often teased, and very rarely, if ever, arrested.
While I find my eyes and ear (même les américaines comprennent) caught by Mme Mac, and I wouldn't have the foggiest in what context "molly with a Dilly" might usually occur, the video and text make one suspect that MM. Doriand and Mika tended to foreground the other characters (do long guns imply rough trade?).
[come to think of it, an odd bent would probably have been a career advantage at Bletchley, in that one might have been already habituated to picking up on metadata during traffic analysis?]
Hell of a tangent, near non contact but, FWiW I pretty sure it's a Sergio Leone film, many of which had sequences shot in Spain and some in North Africa (IIRC) - the blanket toss back is such a trope.
The following piano man bars just prior to the singing are, to my ear, a definite riff on Moby's Extreme Ways that was repurposed for the Jason Bourne films.
They claim that, but I don't see how it could possibly be true, based on the cast listing at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/fullcredits : apart from an uncredited nurse (Barbara Cole) it seems like a screenplay calculated to make Ms Bechdel sad.
True — I ought to have considered that, for I know the book Seven Pillars of Wisdom has in supertext some passages that (if they made it at all) are probably only referred to in the movie as subtext. mea culpa
Comme je suis bête ! In my defence I saw that one in a 747, so low cabin pressure may not have done my long term memory formation much good. (EDIT: looks like whatever I was remembering as LoA wasn't even that?)
The multivalued functions are a relief — should the sparks/stars lit in my noggin by a comment align in a different direction from intended, it's not that I'm running riot in a deterministic world, but merely finding myself perhaps at the same coordinates, but on a different sheet, in a nondeterministic one?
The Maugham story in which bumble-puppy appears (if slightly later in the decade than in Huxley) is worth reading, especially with the background that WSM worked for MI6 and had (orientation as well as valuation?) reasons to make use of glueings along branch cuts in his personal, as well as his professional, life.
> In a place like the sanatorium where there was little to occupy the mind it was inevitable that soon everyone should know that George Templeton was in love with Evie Bishop. But it was not so easy to tell what her feelings were. It was plain that she liked his company, but she did not seek it, and indeed it looked as though she took pains not to be alone with him. One or two of the middle-aged ladies tried to trap her into some compromising admission, but ingenuous as she was, she was easily a match for them. She ignored their hints and met their straight questions with incredulous laughter. She succeeded in exasperating them.
Being partway through Conflict, War and Revolution(2022)*, I think something may be coming together modelling all your options: Kaczynski and Galois may have been too idealistically violent (the one having done what he could unto others, the other having suffered what he must?) and Grothendieck too idealistically nonviolent (which obviously leads to minimising one's dot product with the world) but Kolmogorov found a nonviolent quadrant inside Machiavelli's pragmatic lead: Fortune provides a martingale process, and virtu consists of minimaxing one's expected interests with respect to her whim.
On a planet like earth it is inevitable that men should seek the favour of Fortune, but it is rarely easy to tell what her feelings are. (or, for that manner, if they even be iid)
For every epsilon of licentiousness, there exists a delta of venus, such that...? (as an algebraist, it seems analysts spend an awful lot of time chasing tails!)
I have been brought up in a culture where seduction follows a sequence ("running the bases"); are there cultures where that does not suffice, and seduction requires more sophistication: a net*, say, or even a filter?
* in line with the genre fiction cover kind of net, someone once won a competition we had at uni for "best line to get a member of the appropriate sex into your room" with 75 pound test, eg https://fr.aliexpress.com/i/839412765.html
No, although I do have a fair amount of shelf space devoted to a CS book series (published by that breakaway technical college somewhere in the fens) all of which are in shades of what I would've called green, but a cantab colleague informed me was in fact blue.
One hint too many! I have been taught that "it's ${LOCATION}ing" is the english equivalent of « il pleuvine », and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40244602 ought to have billions and billions of connections. (none of which involve Leontine S)
(as for me, one of my friends is on the faculty, studying among other things quiver varieties, which brings us full circle back to Penelope, who set up the competition with Odysseus' bow. If it were an asian recurve bow, it makes sense that the suitors might've tried to string it backwards, and if it were a horseback bow, the draw weight for its size might easily have been such that only someone who knew the foot trick for stringing would've managed)
Sorry, not Hⁿ (or even Ext), but a particular problem from the bloke who claimed we must (deontic necessity) know and will (dynamic) know. Maybe it would've been clearer as H15/23?
(if we were chemists, H₁₅ would sound very unstable)
So, getting back to lava[0], IIRC I'd already admitted that I needed a weak[1] rhyme for 'Schwoaba' (and having already used most of my mental bandwidth finding 'gutsy' as a syllable-truncation of 'valiant'). But why even mention the valiant Swabian? Because, like grue[2], a Schwabenstreich[3]'s denotation has spatiotemporal bifurcation: outside of Swabia, it's a dumb, ridiculous, idiotic move; inside of Swabia, it's a sly move with a good outcome.
This reminded me strongly of a paragraph from Funakoshi (冨名腰 義珍):
When birds of prey are attacking,
they fly in low without extending their wings.
When wild beasts are about to attack,
they crouch low with their ears close to their heads.
Similarly, when a sage is about to act,
he always appears slightly dull.
By looking at the untranslated original[4,5] (1935)[6], we can see by the lack of hiragana that he's probably quoting a chinese source[7,8].
After having translated to simplified characters, and thanks to a literary search engine, I found the referent[9]:
鸷鸟将击，卑飞敛翼；
猛兽将搏，弭耳俯伏；
圣人将动，必有愚色。
Which is attributed[A] to Jiang Ziya[B], someone who at first appeared to be taking the Grothendieck Option, but turned out merely to have been waiting for the right delta to strike price in order to exercise the Kolmogorov Option, all along.
[5] in the earlier "8 important phases of Karate" https://archive.org/details/karate-do-kyohan_202203/page/248... I'm not sure what the first 2 are supposed to convey other than the constant waxing and waning (would we now say chaotic time evolution?) of relative concentration, relative strength and weakness, etc? However, all of the last 6 I've encountered in more than one —western origin— agonistic context as well.
[6] note that to better appeal to a mainland audience, by this date Karate (唐手 "Tang[chinese] hand") has already been rebranded as Karate (空手 "empty hand")
[7] indeed, "Shotokan" as the name of the school derives from Gichin's pen name, Shōtō (松涛 "pine billow")[C]
[8] actually Shōtō faithfully gives us the source:《六韬·武韬·发启》but for some reason (Japanese pariochialism? The cold war? or just plain ignorance, as the facing page implies, that the circles indicated sources?) his translator forgot to include it?
[A] even if the book[D] in which this appears dates from 500 years after its supposed author, as the english wp page suspects, it's still worthwhile advice from ~2'500 years bp.
I see that 松 was also the "top grade" of a tripartite rating system (pine, bamboo, rattan: similar to our gold, silver, bronze for a relatively metal-poor society?); Funakoshi studied two other schools of karate before inventing what we know as Shotokan[E], so might his pupils have named the dojo "Shotokan" not only after him, but also with the idea that it (pine) improved upon its (bamboo and rattan) ancestors?
[D] https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/六韜#豹韜 . I have yet to delve into this, but supposedly a fair amount of it is supposed to be about first (a) laying the groundwork, and then (b) reaping the rewards when[F] the moment is propitious.
[E] in which he never awarded himself more than a 5-dan; see the 2nd idiom in [B].
[F] compare von Seydlitz, or Grothendieck's "when the time is ripe, hand pressure is enough"?
That specific bit of reasoning is very likely wrong.
The circumstances of Turings investigation and arrest started with Turing going to the police to report that had been robbed by a person considered to be a rent boy.
If he had the slightest notion of how homosexual behaviour was dealt with by the regular police and that he would be the main subject of interest rather than the robber he would not have reported the theft.
Turing very much came from a class isolated from common consequences, he spent his youth at an elite school and then university, later at Bletchley Park, all places where lads with an odd bent were not at all uncommon, largely tolerated although often teased, and very rarely, if ever, arrested.