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There might be pickle gods, raspberry gods, condom gods and horseraddish buggy gods. 24. There might be umbrella satans, sock satans, banana satans and dandelion satans. 25. The bible might be about a cat and a dog named God and Satan.
... Dante might have invented infinite monkeys. Pieces of the world that seem far away may be happening right by us. The people who we experience as being outside of us might be having their experiences inside of us, or in the table ...
... Dante's nine circles of Hell. In the poet's medieval Christian world cats were viewed as symbols of the old pagan ... monkeys are capable of counting to 9. In 1998 two psychologists from Columbia University were able to demonstrate that ...
... describes the life of Alessandro Giuliani, as he remembers his past and tells his story to his young companion Nicolò. As the novel begins, Alessandro is hurrying through the streets of Rome in the early morning of August 9, 1964.
... infinite number of persons he remembers. He is heartless, because he is impersonal and universal. He is altogether ... monkeys. Mephistopheles has no prejudice against the snake; he understands and he despises his cousin, the snake, also ...
This book explores the answers to fundamental questions about the human mind and human behaviour with the help of two ancient texts.
... monkey typing at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely produce Dante's Divine Comedy. We actually know more than this: the monkey will produce it infinitely many times, with due frequency. We ...
Featuring fascinating case studies of how Microsoft, P&G, Nike, Starbucks, Ford, Best Buy, Zappos, and others, launched, built, expanded, or rebuilt their brands through Wiki-style collaboration with customers, this book is part wake-up ...
Though they be Ill rulers of this household, be not thou Too swift to strike ere time be ripe to strike, Nor then by darkling stroke, against them: I Have erred, who thought by wrong to vanquish wrong, To smite by violence violence, ...
An ethologist shows man to be a gene machine whose world is one of savage competition and deceit