to "fashion"; "in the weeds"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Who is considered a "good genius"??
DanG


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > evidently I'm not alone.
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> 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.
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> Apparently, geniuses can be either good or evil, but not masterminds.
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