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Sorry to drag you into this! I meant “inspired by” in the literal sense, not as a claim that it would fall under your definition. I mentioned so when I tweeted
by paulgb 5y ago
Sorry to drag you into this! I meant “inspired by” in the literal sense, not as a claim that it would fall under your definition. I mentioned so when I tweeted it, but not in the post itself https://twitter.com/paulgb/status/1492923557801869318?s=21 https://twitter.com/paulgb/status/1492923557801869318?s=21
- michael_nielsen 5y agoNo worries. I'm glad you're experimenting! For myself - and I know others respond very differently - I usually want everything in an essay to serve the overarching point. So I find fictional asides pretty distracting. There are exceptions: Imre Lakatos did it well in "Proofs and Refutations", and Douglas Adams did it well too. But it's tough to pull off!