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Ken Keeler, he looks back at his time spent as a mathematician as part of his progression toward becoming a comedy writer: “Everything that happens to us has some effect on us, and I do suppose that the time I spent in grad school made me a
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“When I consider the brief span of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and behind it, the small space that I fill, or even see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces which I know not, and which know not me, I am afraid.'
'I should think so' I said.
'I am afraid, sir, and wonder to see myself here rather than there. For there is no reason why I should be here rather than then'
'Did you come to any conclusion?'
The Stanton cleared its throat, then got out a folded linen handkerchief and carefully blew its nose. 'It seems to me that time must move in strange jumps, passing over intervening epochs. But why it would do that, or even how, I do not know. At a certain point the mind cannot fathom anything further.”
― We Can Build You
'I should think so' I said.
'I am afraid, sir, and wonder to see myself here rather than there. For there is no reason why I should be here rather than then'
'Did you come to any conclusion?'
The Stanton cleared its throat, then got out a folded linen handkerchief and carefully blew its nose. 'It seems to me that time must move in strange jumps, passing over intervening epochs. But why it would do that, or even how, I do not know. At a certain point the mind cannot fathom anything further.”
― We Can Build You
“The more the problem was analysed the sillier the solutions became”
― Hanging in the Balance: A History of the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Britain
― Hanging in the Balance: A History of the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Britain
“The profusion of the stars told him unambiguously that he was doomed to die”
― Everyman
― Everyman
“That's why their lives are worse than ours; they can't give up and die - they have to go on.”
― We Can Build You
― We Can Build You
“I had insight and yet I did not; one part of me knew and understood, the rest seethe like a captured animal that yearns to get back to its own environment, it's own familiar places.”
― We Can Build You
― We Can Build You
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