Dear Sir or Madam, 6 October 2009 I am writing to complain about repetitious delays in rail service last week and to claim the vouchers you have referred in your information leaflet. Whereas all my classes in London start at 10 o'clock sharp and I do not want to be late because I have paid for these I always check the schedule for the most convenient choice of train. Nevertheless last week all my journeys to my course delayed. On the worst day the train was 1 hour and 20 minutes late. Therefore I missed two classes in addition to numerous
going to be true only when Albert is fat and Albert is greedy. (Check that for yourself.) And the word "and" can be iterated, that is, applied over and over again, to make longer and longer sentences without letup: "Fa and not Fb"; "Fa and not Ga and Fb and not Gb"; "Fa and Ga and not Fb and Gb and Fa and not Fb"; and so on forever. (Of course the later sentences will be repeti- tious, since Oafish has such a small lexicon, but even the most repetitious sentences are still grammatical and have perfectly clear truth conditions.) So, just from this trifling little truth definition we have already got infi- nitely many grammatical sentences, and we have projection rules that tell us, no matter how long a sentence is, the condition under which that sentence is true. Armed with this, we could encounter any novel sentence of Oafish, even if it were five miles long, and compute its truth condition. We have explained
Prince H a l representing honor and S i r John dishonor. R e a d a Shakespeare play and see how many polarities you can find in it. W h a t is the effect of these polarities on the reader or audience? 2. Review a movie such as Pulp Fiction or The Fellowship of the Ring from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. H o w many dualities and polarized relationships can you detect? Do they add to the dramatic experience or are they just repetitious? 3. C o m p i l e your own list o f polarities. Pick one at random and see if you can generate characters and a story from it. 4. "Agon" means contest or struggle but also can be a central challenge in someone's life, perhaps something temporary that comes up, or it could the one great thing he or she must wresde with throughout life. W h a t is the agon in your life, at the moment and over the long run? W h a t is the agon of your character? 5
school for a month before the test. Pers z had experts in the language of almost every country large enough to maintain a diplomatic corps. One Olbricht attacked the difficult problems of breaking Chinese codes. A man named Benzing took such delight in the Turkish language and Turkish cryptanalysis that his confreres regarded him as a veritable Turcomaniac. The cryptanalysts received some of their greatest help from robots— mechanisms that speedily performed some of the highly repetitious tasks required, or that simplified the handling of many items. Many were tabulating machines that used punched cards in ordinary ways. But many others were assembled out of standard parts for special purposes by Hans-Georg Krug, a former high school mathematics teacher who possessed a positive genius for this sort of thing. These Pers z robots helped solve codes of France and Italy, both of which used at times four-digit codes with additive superencipherments.