Posted by llrrrpp on August 19, 2006, at 10:23:52
In reply to Re: Forget to include message » finelinebob, posted by Jost on August 18, 2006, at 22:59:44
> Cause if so, I think there's a book to be written: The Human History of Failure, Parts I,II, and III. (There could be as many parts as you want.)
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> You'd have so much material. It's almost hard to know where to begin.
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> There's crying need for that book. This seems like the perfect historical moment for it, too.
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Jost, I was going to write my dissertation on failure. but I couldn't. I didn't even try. Now I'm studying the subject of failure. It's very interdisciplinary. I can experience failure in any branch of academia.PHYSICS F
ARCHERY F
SPECTROSCOPY & NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING F
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY F
THE ENGLISH NOVEL F
LINEAR ALGEBRA F-
PRIMATE NERVOUS SYSTEMS F
INTRO TO BALLROOM DANCING F
DOKTOR FAUSTUS Fyou see? There are so many opportunities to study failure!
-ll
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