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The Man Who Had No Idea others." John Clute, however, found it to be "unaccountably genial and without formal bite", such that its "potentially formidable idea gradually declines into doodle". In a 1984 interview, Disch described it as "a story about what our social relationships are really like" and "a springboard to the subject of what do we talk about when we talk about anything. What are all these social interactions "about"? What is the "subject" of them?" The Man Who Had No Idea "The Man Who Had No Idea" is a 1978 science fiction story by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published in "The