In message <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] writes
>Roy writes:
>
>> (Roy confirms Wirt's conjectures about what he studied at uni).
>>
>>  And yes, Philosophy of Science was my major interest. I'd come up the
>>  science stream in high school (Grammar School, for those who understand
>>  how the UK education system worked, until successive governments and
>>  political correctness ruined it).
>>
>>  And straddling both that and Metaphysics, and even possibly Ontology,
>>  was this question of faith versus science.
>
>Given that philosophy was your major, I am curious if you had heard of the
>Chicago Mafia don who had given up his criminal lifestyle and who
>decided to go
>straight, attending the University of Chicago a few years ago. He majored in
>deconstructionist philosophies. Now that he's done, it's often been said that
>"he now makes you an offer you can't understand."

Oh yes, I remember him. He eventually went back into racketeering, where
the others of his family, in recognition of his sabbatical from
organised crime, always referred to him thereafter (though never to his
face of course) as 'Cosa Nostradamus'.

--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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