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on N/J (б/к) I got sidetracked by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3dOs1kaD4o (confirming that classroom layouts are very conservative)

On my side of the tracks (б/в*), I got redirected (distracted?) by

*вождь

Call no work avian unless it has been ____?

(I've been closely following Spekkens..fwiw)

> ...a group of idealists bound together by their alienation from a superstitious society and a capricious government.

So the single sheet sol'n to CP Snow's two cultures lies in precarious situations?

See what our self-publishing comrades have been saying??

> Придется ввести, как минимум, еще одну промежуточную чепуху.

(I think, in addition to the precarity (instability?),the pushback likelihood indicates (б/в) might be an underrated dichotomy)

Do I properly understand

> Но математики, по определению -- Московские. Остальные так гуляют.

to be saying "only the muscovites are mathematicians; the rest of us just fool around/play at it"?

It's probably also a play on "concrete (nonsense)"

=> Only muscovites do all sorts of nonsense (for real) the rest of us just do it in the abstract