"All Available Dunces" -- The Movie
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Author: Bret Cahill
Date: Aug 26, 2008 09:47

I put out the shoe and the dunces fall over themselves trying to get
their feet to fit.

And their feet do fit, quite well in fact.
>>> "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this
>>> sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
>>> -- Jonathan Swift
>>This quote is usually self-applied by fools and kooks.

And if isn't self applied then a fool's projecting give him away.

If you are projecting or delusional, or in this case a projecting
delusional, then anyone can google the original OP to determine that
the quote appeared without comment.

The OPer never applied anything to anyone.

The public record is your friend if and only if you are honest with
yourself.
>> Those who are
>>truly insightful are also wise enough not to apply it publicly to
>>themselves.
> It's not true anyhow. Shakespeare; Feynman; Einstein; Kovacs; Kelvin;
> all revered
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