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The Admiral wrote:
> When Leo Tolstoy and his brother were children, they created a club
> with a peculiar, almost impossible initiation ceremony. In order to
> become a member, one had to stand in a corner for a half an hour and
> not think of anything white.
Of course, the real test was the fact that all the others in the room
could immediately tell if the initiate in ther corner thought of
anything white. That's what Tolstoy was really saying.
R.M.
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