{"id":1547,"date":"2007-06-11T20:17:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T03:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2007-06-11T20:17:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T03:17:16","slug":"cormac-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/06\/11\/cormac-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormac McCarthy on Oprah, End of World at 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/index.html\">Oprah (subscription required)<\/a>.  And yes, his latest book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Road-Cormac-McCarthy\/dp\/0307265439?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1181617140&amp;sr=8-2\">is<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thequantumpon-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/> about the end of the world.  Inteviewed in the Santa Fe Institute library.  I don&#8217;t remember it looking like that at all \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nComments by <a href=\"http:\/\/santafe.edu\">SFI<\/a> researchers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nBest part of the interview is where Cormac lectures on probability: &#8220;The laws of probability operate everywhere.  That being the case, somewhere in the world there is the luckiest person.&#8221;  Yes, isn&#8217;t the luckiest man&#8217;s name <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosencrantz_&amp;_Guildenstern_Are_Dead\">Rosencrantz<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are riding horses down a path &#8211; they pause]<br \/>\nRosencrantz: [to Guildenstern] Umm, uh&#8230;<br \/>\n[Guildenstern rides away, and Rosencrantz follows. Rosencrantz spots a gold coin on the ground]<br \/>\nRosencrantz: [to horse] Whoa &#8211; whoa, whoa.<br \/>\n[Gets off horse and starts flipping the coin]<br \/>\nRosencrantz: Hmmm. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads.<br \/>\n[Guildenstern grabs the coin, checks both sides, then tosses it back to Rosencrantz]<br \/>\nRosencrantz: Heads.<br \/>\n[Guildenstern pulls a coin out of his own pocket and flips it]<br \/>\nRosencrantz: Bet? Heads I win?<br \/>\n[Guildenstern looks at coin and tosses it to Rosencrantz]<br \/>\nRosencrantz: Again? Heads.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewed on Oprah (subscription required). And yes, his latest book is about the end of the world. Inteviewed in the Santa Fe Institute library. I don&#8217;t remember it looking like that at all \ud83d\ude42 Comments by SFI researchers are here. Best part of the interview is where Cormac lectures on probability: &#8220;The laws of probability &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/06\/11\/cormac-mccarthy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cormac McCarthy on Oprah, End of World at 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-you-tweed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}