IZ Daily Quiz #22.004
#ThrowbackThursday #Non-Fiction
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday question is from January 2011
In late 2010, Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of "Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan" published "The Bed of _____". This is a book of aphorisms, and about how humans constantly try to summarise knowledge into short and crisp sentences, ideas, and categories.
The book is named after an interesting figure from Greek Mythology, who invited passer-bys to spend the night in his house, and would forcibly 'fit' them into their beds, by amputation or stretching, to exactly match the length of the bed. Which figure?
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Procrustes
Pandora
Pyrrhus
Prometheus
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Answer
Procrustes. The book is called “The Bed of Procrustes”.
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