Status Updates From Mathematique

Exponentially more engaging than Easter lunch with my family. I fail to understand those that incessantly monetize life.

We live in the future perfect. Our present is never, and it never has the time to be; it is already no more; we live it only as what will be the past. The constantly renewed memory of this state of affairs (or its constantly reborn prescience) as soon as life, other people, or language impose this inevitable play on us, leaves traces above all on words, in the verbal particularities that characterize an individual.

François Le Lionnais [founder of Oulipo] spent his last years surrounded by his library.. covering various fields of knowledge, disparate, disordered, intertwining, labyrinthine mazes void of theory, long sequences on shelves in tortured yet necessary arrangements, potentially rich in sudden resonances or flashes from unexpected juxtapositions...