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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/dawkins.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/dawkins.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c0acd3157ad --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/tex/context/sample/common/dawkins.tex @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +I used a similar illustration in one of my Royal +Institution Christmas Lectures in 1991. I said I had reason +to believe that among my audience was a psychic, +clairvoyant individual, capable of influencing events +purely by power of thought. I would try to flush this +individual out. \quotation {Let's first establish,} I said, +\quotation {whether the psychic is in the left half or the +right half of the lecture hall.} I invited everybody to +stand up while my assistant tossed a coin. Everybody on the +left of the hall was asked to \quote {will} the coin to +come down heads. Everybody on the right had to will it to be +tails. Obviously one side had to lose, and they were asked +to sit down. Then those that remained were divided into two, +with half \quote {willing} heads and the other half tails. +Again the losers sat down. And so on by successive halvings +until, inevitably, after seven or eight tosses, one +individual was left standing. \quotation {A big round of +applause for our psychic.} He must be psychic, mustn't he, +because he successfully influenced the coin eight times in +a row? |