“Yes, I am pagan,” said Lauren. “Thoroughly pagan. And I expect to be admired for that. Adored, actually.”
Leslie W. Dow, The Murder in the Meadow.
Wittgenstein corrected: there is no solution because there is a problem.
Gaddis Gann, Essays on the Pre-Socratics.
June 13, 1996. My new goal is to avoid going completely insane. Partial insanity—that’s the ticket.
Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.
A firm recommendation: let’s redefine our terms every ten minutes.
Delbert Arbogast, The Null Hypothesis and Other Stories.
Well, I do have thoughts. Yes. But that doesn’t mean that I believe I create them.
Tuc d’Audubert, Into the Swirling World.
The problem with ESP is that it is vapid. Even when it is evident. Even when it is effective.
Roderick Hewes, Introduction to the World of Light.
What do I fear? Being the fool who sees himself as a sophisticate. Is anyone else—anyone at all—afflicted with this fear?
Aleister Wainwright, Odd Droppings.
There is no such thing as almost believing. Belief cannot be an asymptote.
Jason K. Broadus, The Ice of My Dreams.
I cannot avoid my ideas, so of course it appears as though I am devoted to them.
Baldwin Tavinger, Toward a Rhetoric of Number.
Our understanding of mathematics resides [only] at the operational level: We know some ways to apply mathematics to the physical world, and we know some ways to generate further mathematics.
Piet Goovaerts, Introduction to the Mathematics of Elasticity.
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