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Simon Mason
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in Sheffield, Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
February 05, 1962
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“Aunt Maxie giggled. ‘What can he be thinking about so hard?’
‘Best not to know,’ his mother said. She tsked. ‘One day that boy’ll go too far.’
‘Something serious. Look at him. He can’t even hear us talking about him. What can it be?’
‘Complex numbers,’ Garvie said, without taking his eyes off the table.
‘Oh.’
With a suspicious glance at her son, Garvie’s mother asked Aunt Maxie about the new locl convenience store, and they settled into a conversation about the scandalous rising prices of food.
Garvie carried on thinking.
a + bi, where i has the property i squared = -1. The product of a real number and an imaginary number. You don’t compute complex numbers, you rotate them. You move them into an imaginary dimension and the answer is an unexpected jolt from the blue.
‘Garvie? Garvie?’
He looked up at his aunt. ‘Alex is lying,’ he said.”
― Running Girl
‘Best not to know,’ his mother said. She tsked. ‘One day that boy’ll go too far.’
‘Something serious. Look at him. He can’t even hear us talking about him. What can it be?’
‘Complex numbers,’ Garvie said, without taking his eyes off the table.
‘Oh.’
With a suspicious glance at her son, Garvie’s mother asked Aunt Maxie about the new locl convenience store, and they settled into a conversation about the scandalous rising prices of food.
Garvie carried on thinking.
a + bi, where i has the property i squared = -1. The product of a real number and an imaginary number. You don’t compute complex numbers, you rotate them. You move them into an imaginary dimension and the answer is an unexpected jolt from the blue.
‘Garvie? Garvie?’
He looked up at his aunt. ‘Alex is lying,’ he said.”
― Running Girl
“Her head fell forward, her small nose hid itself in the collar of her dressing gown and at last she fell asleep.”
― Moon Pie
― Moon Pie
“The Superintendent took a breath. ‘What do you know about the Oxford colleges?’ ‘Well, they’re pretty weird—’ ‘They’ve educated half of our prime ministers, an extremely high proportion of our politicians, judges, journalists, captains of industry, educationalists, analysts and activists. They are the heart of the establishment. A closed world. A world with its own rules, its own way of doing things. We don’t blunder in without taking care. We don’t risk offending them, because, for all we know, they’re advising the government on law-enforcement policy or police funding, or they have the ear of the producer of the News at Ten. We don’t tell the Provost of one of the colleges to calm the fuck down. Do you understand me?’ Her face pointed at him, wren-like and fierce.”
― A Killing in November
― A Killing in November
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