The Bed of Procrustes : Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms Condition:Very Good Janet Frame

Janet Frame

Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability

perpetrating forgeries

and Yuko's last day at work

Crisscrossing in time

The Bed of Procrustes : Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms Condition:Very Good Janet FrameThe author of the modern classics The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb expresses major ideas in ways you least expect in this collection of aphorisms and meditationsnow expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by stretching them or by cutting their limbs. It represents