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ALSO BY NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
Fooled by Randomness
The Black Swan
Copyright © 2010 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataTaleb, Nassim.The bed of Procrustes: philosophical and practical aphorisms /by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.p. cm.eISBN: 978-0-679-64368-51. Aphorisms and apothegms. 2. Human behavior—Quotations, maxims, etc. I. Title.PN6271.T35 2011818′.602—dc222010036866
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CONTENTS
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Procrustes
PRELUDES
COUNTER NARRATIVES
MATTERS ONTOLOGICAL
THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE
CHANCE, SUCCESS, HAPPINESS, AND STOICISM
CHARMING AND LESS CHARMING SUCKER PROBLEMS
THESEUS, OR LIVING THE PALEO LIFE
THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
THE UNIVERSAL AND THE PARTICULAR
FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
AESTHETICS
ETHICS
ROBUSTNESS AND FRAGILITY
THE LUDIC FALLACY AND DOMAIN DEPENDENCE
EPISTEMOLOGY AND SUBTRACTIVE KNOWLEDGE
THE SCANDAL OF PREDICTION
BEING A PHILOSOPHER AND MANAGING TO REMAIN ONE
ECONOMIC LIFE AND OTHER VERY VULGAR SUBJECTS
THE SAGE, THE WEAK, AND THE MAGNIFICENT
THE IMPLICIT AND THE EXPLICIT
ON THE VARIETIES OF LOVE AND NONLOVE
THE END
Postface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
PROCRUSTES
Procrustes, in Greek mythology, was the cruel owner of a small estate in Corydalus in Attica, on the way between Athens and Eleusis, where the mystery rites were performed. Procrustes had a peculiar sense of hospitality: he abducted travelers, provided them with a generous dinner, then invited them to spend the night in a rather special bed. He wanted the bed to fit the traveler to perfection. Those who were too tall had their legs chopped off with a sharp hatchet; those who were too short were stretched (his name was said to be Damastes, or Polyphemon, but he was nicknamed Procrustes, which meant “the stretcher”).
In the purest of poetic justice, Procrustes was hoisted by his own petard. One of the travelers happened to be the fearless Theseus, who slayed the Minotaur later in his heroic career. After the customary dinner, Theseus made Procrustes lie in his own bed. Then, to make him fit in it to the customary perfection, he decapitated him. Theseus thus followed Hercules’s method of paying back in kind.
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