to "fashion"; "in the weeds"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> evidently I'm not alone.

Evidently. I cut my semantic teeth on such real and imaginary,
redundantly-evil masterminds as Hitler, Tojo, Fu-Manchu, The Scorpion,
Mr. Mind, Ivan Shark, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, etc.

Apparently, geniuses can be either good or evil, but not masterminds.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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