&gt;   In the evening
&gt;   The rice leaves in the garden
&gt;   Rustle in the autumn wind
&gt;   That blows through my reed hut. -- Minamoto no Tsunenobu
&gt;
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murray,

i think i first ran into fuzzy set theory in 1972 --
it is starting to scare me how many things lately
seem to be harking &amp;/v flashing back to that year --
while i was smack-dab in the middle of one of my
periodic foundational &amp;/v identity crises, while
desparately seeking a