как Бенджамин Фраклин в Лондоне мощно отоварился

В качестве эпиграфа: "Buy what thou hast no need of; and e'er long thou shalt sell thy necessaries." (Poor Richard's Almanac, 1738)

When [Franklin] reached London [in 1757], he went shopping, and shipped to his wife a huge collection of china ("there is something from all the china works in England"), along with melons, bowls, coffee cups, four silver salt ladles, "a little instrument to core apples," tea cloths ("for nobody here breakfasts on the naked table"), a carpet, tablecloths, napkins, sheets, fifty-six yards of cotton, seven yards of fabric for covering chairs, snuffers, a snuff-stand, silk blankets, and a gown made of sixteen yards of flowered tissue. He even thought about buying his daughter a harpsichord, but, thrifty man, decided against it.

(from Jill Lepore, "The creed: what Poor Richard cost Benjamin Franklin", The New Yorker, Jan 28, 2008)

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Весь день героически считал вероятности умеренных уклонений для рекурсивных эмпирических оценок коэффициентов Уолша-Фурье ограниченных функций на булевом кубе. Через неравенства Розенталя и Талаграна, хуле. По работе надо. Надо бы выпить того, коньячку. А то, неровен час, эти неравенства зохавают мой бедный моск.