I can't concentrate on my compiler book but I can work on
Foucault's Pendulum. I'm over halfway done. It's good that
I read it immediately after reading Mackay's Extraordinary Popular
Delusions, as I now recognize many of the historical personages
(Cagliostro, Dr. Dee, &c.). In general, I'm understanding much more
of what's going on (eg. I caught the Name of the Rose reference(s? are there more than one?))
than I did when I read it a year ago. A few things still puzzle me,
though.
It's a shame that there's no bibliography for Foucault's Pendulum.
I know that works of fiction don't generally have bibliographies.
But Foucault's Pendulum definitely deserves one.
Oh, minor question. I reread Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective
Agency, and I finally understand everything in the book, except
for one little detail: how did what they did actually save the human
race? I don't see how the effects of Dirk's actions at the end prevented
what originally happened from happening again. I know what
happened, but I don't completely understand how it helped. I can't go
into too much detail because I don't want to give the ending away.
Sun May 07 2000 21:01 Jezebel, Malkuth, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes!:
That's me, sick as a dog. I communicate with Dan via email, even
though he's just across the room, because it hurts too much to talk.
Bleah. And I have a midterm tomorrow. I sincerely hope I will only
be asked about regular expressions, DFAs, and emperical questions
like "write a yacc grammar for language x". The portion of the
exam in which I will be asked to trace the actions of ye Parser
will be failed miserably by me.
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