Symmetry and Deception in Lonro's Downfall

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Exploring Lonro's disdain for symmetry and his entanglement in Charlock's maze of deception, this chapter delves into the intricate plot laced with revenge and manipulation. Themes of philosophical paradoxes and the allure of perpetual intrigue are examined through Lonro's fall from grace. The narrative warns against the dangers of blind pursuit of patterns and the deceptive allure of fabricated conspiracies.

A Rabbi is found dead in a hotel room, stabbed in the chest. The room is filled with Kabbalah texts and a single page in an typewriter that reads “The first letter of the name has been written.” The celebrated detective and “reasoning machine” Erik Lönnrot suspects a rabbinical explanation but is he seeing patterns that may not be there? David and Tamler get out their pipes, magnifying glasses, and deerstalker hats to unravel another Borges mystery: “Death and the Compass.” Plus a new study on why men make errors about whether women are flirting with them, the latest in our series on studies that employ erotic fiction.

Links:

A Dress Is Not a Yes: Towards an Indirect Mouse-Tracking Measure of Men’s Overreliance on Global Cues in the Context of Sexual Flirting

Pinpointing the psychological factors linked to men's misjudgments of women's sexual interest

Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges [wikipedia.org]