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For this year's winner of the Nobel prize for literature,
a Hungarian enthusiast of run-on sentences whose "bible"
is said to be the classic novel about Cuernavaca by 
Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano . . .

As season three of "The Diplomat" unfolds, I visit my
memory garden to recall the time I sat with Judge Flick in his
chambers at my hometown courthouse to get a reference for
my application to Harvard and noticed on his desk a copy of
E. B. White's "little book" on prose style which, along with
a library book by Norbert Wiener, may have influenced my 
mentioning to the judge the rather strange word "cybernetics,"
derived from the term for the steersman of the ship of Odysseus
who was lost at sea in Homer's epic tale.

"Wiener" of course is another term for a resident of Vienna.
And so, returning to much more recent memories — from 
yesterday —  of the long strange journey that has been my life . . .

Two references from a much less subjective  and much more
objective  tale that might amuse the late Hermann Weyl —

Related picture from a cartoon graveyard —