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Virginia Heffernan: Edge, Jeffrey Epstein, & the Intellectual Dark Web
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The Edge of the Literary Critics
In 19 81 a group of men, john cyrrl, stephen j gould, isaac asamov, daniel hillis and john brockman came together basically to be mad at all the literary critics and artists of the time who were very in the humanities. So that was where just the proximity of the smart people and the rich people were supposed to ennoble both of them. And they would put you on the web site, and you would contribute. Some people would contribute to an anthology every year. And i contributed two or three times; jeffrey epsteen, i think, contributed once. While that was happening, i didn't know anything about
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