Gallowglass

Everything I know, I learned from SF

Brad DeLong takes up Matthew Yglesias’ challenge, and finds good reason to believe that God could indeed create a szlacton if God so chose. De Long appeals to an unimpeachable authority, SF writer John M. Ford (whose peachy ‘Masque of History,’ The Dragon Waiting has just been reissued in the UK). Not the first time that an SF writer has proved a valuable intellectual resource by any means; readers of Gene Wolfe’s “The Book of the New Sun” should be penalized at least ten points in this online vocabulary test for being more familiar than they ought to be with arcane terms such as ‘fuligin’ and ‘favela.’