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February 9, night: I dreamed a Martian visited me. He said he was recalling all copies of TETRIS to the factory because of copyright violations. I was mad. I chopped him into pieces and hid them under the neat set of colored stacking blocks I just bought...
...retrospect, Gould's course, like most at Harvard, was uncomfortably self-enclosed. The focus was on ideas as "neat" things-in-themselves. It was enjoyable, but not all that "world-important...
Most single malts are sold only to the blenders, but 70 distilleries bottle small amounts for sale to a growing body of purists who drink them neat or with a bit of water, or like brandy in postprandial snifters. Single malts are as different from one another as Burgundy wines are from Bordeaux: a soft, sweetish Lowland malt like Auchentoshan is a wholly different taste experience from Laphroaig, one of the tangy, medicinal whiskies produced on the isle of Islay (pronounced EYE-la). Part of the appeal of these whiskies, in fact, is their craggy names. Once you've learned...
...other five letters are about the Quarterly's denial of "equal time" to the right-to-life side of the abortion rights debate. While equal time is a neat idea for television media that are legally bound to observe a pretense of objective journalism, the Quarterly, happily, has no such obligations. Contrary to the claims of the letter-writers, the Quarterly has in the past featured articles by anti-choice activists. It is thrilling, now, however, to see the Quarterly take a feminist stand in the face of protest from some of its readers...
When methadone was first introduced 24 years ago, it was hailed as a magic bullet aimed at the heart of heroin addiction. A neat, clean medical solution to a social problem. It has proved to be something less than that. Methadone is a treatment, not a cure, for addiction, and an imperfect one at that. But for some 100,000 of the country's half-million heroin addicts, it offers an alternative to shooting up as well as the possibility of a productive life...