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Ah, okay. It was just the last sentence that threw me for a loop: "Never have I seen someone so distressed at being told he was right." From the anecdote I un
by sofal 18y ago
Ah, okay. It was just the last sentence that threw me for a loop:
"Never have I seen someone so distressed at being told he was right."
From the anecdote I understood that the PhD candidate was being told he was wrong. Anyway, I promise I'm not a troll, at least not on purpose.
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- stcredzero 18y agoIt's a bit subtler than that, even. The M doesn't tell P that he's wrong, he says why he's wrong. He never comes out and says P is wrong, he just lets everyone around "get it." P gets it too, and tries to back off. M keeps spinning the illusion that P is sticking to his guns. I never realized how evil M was until I thought about it again.