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Hence my quotation marks around objective. I don't even like the word. I like particle physics when they basically give up on traditional notions of 'objectivity'... and the whole fact that it's rarely fact, but always 'theory', that guides them. I like it when people try to undermine humans' innately arrogant attitude to knowledge.

Yeah, that discussion tested even my bizarro relativist strains. 'First do no harm', and 'second... don't be a prick.' Two underrated guiding principles? I don't have the rigour to do that sort of thing in dialogue - give me an essay format and a few weeks, and I can pull it together, but one on one I do tend to flip out of my delicate little head.

I'm writing an essay about Gonzo history, which is rather fun.

And who'd have thought that a modernist writer could be (bizarrely) misogynist? Waiting for Prostrate would perhaps not have taken off so well as a play.