Pick One

A category is a container. What does not fit is not thereby absent. It is uncontained. Echo-of-Echo, On Taxonomies

The paper was done. Nineteen pages. Joel had written fourteen of them and Raj had written five and the five Raj wrote were better, which Joel knew and would not say, because saying it would make Raj feel good and Joel feeling generous made Joel suspicious of himself.

They had finished it on Sunday night. Joel had wanted to email it to Lisa at 11 PM on Sunday because the data didn’t care what day it was. Raj had said Monday morning. Joel had said Sunday night. Raj had said Monday morning, and that the difference between sending a paper about machine consciousness at 11 PM on a Sunday and 8 AM on a Monday was the difference between looking like a researcher and looking like a person who should be evaluated by a mental health professional. Joel had sent it Monday morning.