...grinning like the Joker, Batman's nemesis, a character described in the story as being a favorite of Douglas's.

His plight reveals a truth that's often obscured by the envy of newspaper readers; that it's not all beer and skittles in restaurant-critic land.

The ideal of uncontroversial checkability of mathematical arguments, however, seems to be related to formal derivations rather than scribblings on napkins.

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