QUOTE: After I sent an e-mail to the program secretary at Duke:
Me: let's hope I don't come off as dumb and they recind their offer
Dara: they can't
Dara: and it doesn't come off as dumb at all
Me: yeah, except I have this irrational fear that, until I'm there, they can decide it was all a big mistake
Dara: I know you do, but remember that it's irrational, dear.
Me: ah, using meta-level rationality to combat irrationality
Me: how postmodern
Dara: it works a bit
Dara: it makes me able to fly.
Me: oh?
Dara: yeah, I remind myself of my irrationality in being afraid.
Me: oh, in a plane
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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