{"id":181662,"date":"2024-09-08T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=181662"},"modified":"2024-09-08T12:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T17:53:43","slug":"todays-quote-weirdos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-weirdos\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quote: Weirdos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newenglishreview.org\/articles\/of-autism\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Burghauser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Great thinkers are often great weirdos; since every constellation of traits now constitutes a bona fide \u201cidentity\u201d deserving federal protection and universal huzzahs, the weirdos ought to get into the act&#8230;. During Weirdo Appreciation Month, we\u2019d celebrate novelist Marcell Proust (who lived in a cork-lined room), pianist Glenn Gould (who reflexively sang along to whatever Bach keyboard work he was playing), and literary Swiss Army Knife Samuel Johnson (an immense, lumbering figure who, owing to what would today be diagnosed as OCD, Tourette\u2019s, and God knows what else, would alarm the uninitiated with his bizarre gesticulations and involuntary bird-noises). Mathematicians would be robustly represented, including Paul Erd\u00f6s, who was challenged by a colleague to abstain from chemical stimulants for one month; upon successfully meeting the challenge, Erd\u00f6s famously said to his colleague: \u201cYou\u2019ve set mathematics back a month.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Burghauser: Great thinkers are often great weirdos; since every constellation of traits now constitutes a bona fide \u201cidentity\u201d deserving federal protection and universal huzzahs, the weirdos ought to get into the act&#8230;. During Weirdo Appreciation Month, we\u2019d celebrate novelist Marcell Proust (who lived in a cork-lined room), pianist Glenn Gould (who reflexively sang along &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-weirdos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quote: Weirdos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-whatever","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Lg2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181663,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662\/revisions\/181663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}