the fear of empty space
Here is a curious moment from something recently published on the web. The article is "The Kekulé Problem" by Cormac McCarthy, published on the Nautilus site [link]. What caught my eye, however, lies in the introduction to the article. That intro begins:
| Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a research colleague and thought of in complementary terms. An aficionado on subjects ranging from the history of mathematics, philosophical arguments relating to the status of quantum mechanics as a causal theory, [. . .] |
It is necessary to context to know that the intro was written by one David Krakauer, himself a professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
My interest lies in the third sentence.
| At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a research colleague and thought of in complementary terms. |
There are two things here. First, a moment of syntax.
