From: jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au (John Costella)
Subject: Re: SCI: sound cues for 'depth'?
Date: Thu, 20 May 93 13:30:05 EET


> From: jdm@jumbo.Read.TASC.COM (James D. McNamara)
> 
> John Costella (jpc@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au) wrote:
> > > has it "a concomitant sensation".  Very important to Joyce, especailly
> > > in _Finnegan's Wake_ (a definate cyber-beatnik text in its
> 
> > If you were michievous, you could show that he also predicted
> > quarks---decades early. 8-) This one always has the undergraduates
> > dumbfounded <very large grin>.
> 
> ..and I'll admit it dumbfounds at least one post-graduate <shrug :)>

Sorry. :-) Gell-Mann invented the name `quark' after reading the line in
Finnegan's Wake about "Three quarks for Muster Mark". So Joyce didn't
really foresee quarks, but if you're mischievous you can hide the above
fact and make it appear so. :-)

John

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