funny, I just learned about Greene's The Power and the Glory courtesy of Minister (as he was then) Hacker; I'll be reminded of HGG next time I'm passing through Vevey.
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sf0htzbMKk
EDIT: [the basic problem with teleology being https://xkcd.com/927/ ]
You said O’Brien… (Confusing Conan with Collison?)
(the circumstances under which Smith meets Julia seem so contrived that I'm pretty sure she and O'Brien were —in the author's headcanon— part of the same organisation. If Orwell had had any inkling of the Information Research Department the end of his life must've been pretty strange indeed)
And you had participated in grade-charade gametalk track, seemed opportune for offending our half-clueful local deities, if only in principle (Beit S) (Citations ready if/whenever you need them)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Fischer_of_Geneva (Cameo by gwern!)
I’d better ask you for that Schuetzenberger theorem now, i know about Lascoux-S, maybe you were thinking Chomsky-S, or simply S?
EDIT: basic problem with teleology is that its usually not framed as a “search” problem?
[out moving things about at or near the surface of the earth for the rest of the day...]