Yup. She needs to strike quadratic. But then no one can smile. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Joshua Zucker <joshua.zucker@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:48 PM, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
Sara Corbett's lengthy article (Sept 16, NY Times, here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html?scp=1&sq=Red%20Book... ) about Carl Jung's "Red Book" contains the following slightly amusing sentence:
"Giving a dream to a Jungian analyst is a little bit like feeding a complex quadratic equation to someone who really enjoys math."
You mean, it bores them?
If she'd just left off "quadratic" she would have been fine, I think.
--Joshua Zucker
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