Давеча
замечено в ленте:
У поэтов есть такой обычай -
В круг сойдясь, оплёвывать друг друга.На что поступил недвусмысленный ответ:Это гнусный поклеп, квинтэссенция пошлости. Многих поэтов я просто люблю, к подавляющему большинству ныне здравствующих, мне известных, отношусь либо благожелательно и дружески, либо нейтрально. Но для [имярека] делаю
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This is how the very same passage looks in 1986 edition by the same publishers:
Rightly or wrongly, Cantor blamed Kronecker for his failure to obtain the coveted position at Berlin. When two academic specialists disagree violently on purely scientific matters, they have a choice, if discretion seems the better part of valor, of laughing their hatreds off and not making fuss about them or of acting in any of the number of belligerent ways that other people resort to when confronted with situations of antagonism. One way is to go at the other in an efficient, underhanded manner, which often enables one to gain his spiteful end under the guise of sincere friendship. Nothing of sort here! When Cantor and Kronecker fell out, they disagreed all over, threw reserve to the dogs, and did everything but slit other's throat. Perhaps after all this is a more decent way of fighting - if men must fight - than the sanctimonious hypocrisy of the other.
Remarkably, the page numbers are the same, which brings us back to Mr. Smith. One also is left ( ... )
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