Yevgenia Krasnova
Bill has only just begun Taleb’s Black Swan and
Ray disabuses him of one of his assumptions. Bill: You’ve read the Black Swan?
Ray: I have.
Bill: Just begun it but I particularly like the story of this woman neuroscientist who wrote a book but no publisher would touch it, it didn’t seem to be either fact or fiction, so she put it on the Internet and there a publisher found it and he published it and before long her book was out in 40 languages. Just shows, the “experts” are not always right. Great story!
Ray: Great story, indeed. I suspect you have only read up to the chapter on Yevgenia.
Bill: That’s right. How did you know?
Ray: If you turn the page, you’ll find a footnote. “To those readers who Googled Yevgenia Krasnova, I am sorry to say that she is (officially) a fictional character."
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Labels: black swan, Yevgenia Krasnova
posted by Barry Natusch @ 6:30 PM
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3 Comments:
I object! I, Yevgenia Nikolayevna Krasnova, am one of the best-known female Russian writers of the 21st century. Recently I was denoted the second most frequently read young writer under the age of 55 in Russian Federation (see Argumenti i Fakti No. 36 2006-12-18). I was similarly nominated as the writer of the highest quotation in 2006 by Literaturnaya Gazeta. These claims of my non-existence are now really getting on my nerves. They are perpetrated by sophists and are utterly Kafkaesque. If you require a formal, irrefutable proof of my existence, please visit
http://yevgeniakrasnova.com/
and read my books.
Yours,
YNK
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I am very impressed with your logic Yevgenia. Similarly, one of the many proofs of my existance is that I have a web-site: http://flyingspaghettimonster.com/
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