35. "RE: a random aside"
In response to message #34
>I know a surprising number of people who were homeschooled and have >similar strange gaps in their knowledge. It's always kind of >interesting figuring out where those gaps are.
This reminds me of the bit in A Study in Scarlet where Watson runs down a list of what Sherlock Holmes does and does not know, and finds out that Holmes not only doesn't know about heliocentrism, but also doesn't care.
"But the Solar System!" I protested.
"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently. "You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."
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