{"id":24223,"date":"2012-02-14T02:11:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-addition-to-aesthetics-mccarthy-noted-a-deeper-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T02:11:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:11:19","slug":"in-addition-to-aesthetics-mccarthy-noted-a-deeper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-addition-to-aesthetics-mccarthy-noted-a-deeper-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In addition to aesthetics, McCarthy noted a deeper link between great science and great writing. \u201cBoth involve curiosity, taking risks, thinking in an adventurous manner, and being willing to say something 9\/10ths of people will say is wrong.\u201d Profound insights in both domains also tend [to] arise from a source beyond the limits of analytic reason. \u201cMajor insights in science come from the subconscious, from staring at your shoes. They\u2019re not just analytical.\u201d To explain why he doesn\u2019t like to analyze the sources of fiction too closely, McCarthy told a story. \u201cThere was a guy who was a great wing shot on a quail hunt in Georgia. He killed everything he saw, he dropped &lsquo;em all morning. One of the other guys said, \u2018You\u2019re the best wing shot I\u2019ve ever seen.\u2019 At lunch the guy asked him, \u2018Do you shoot with one eye open or both?\u2019 He paused and thought about it. Finally he said, \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2012\/02\/12\/cormac-mccarthy-on-the-sante-fe-institute-s-brainy-halls.html\">Cormac McCarthy on the Santa Fe Institute\u2019s Brainy Halls &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to aesthetics, McCarthy noted a deeper link between great science and great writing. \u201cBoth involve curiosity, taking risks, thinking in an adventurous manner, and being willing to say something 9\/10ths of people will say is wrong.\u201d Profound insights in both domains also tend [to] arise from a source beyond the limits of analytic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6iH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}