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similar stories. But me? I needed the deprivation of war to let my mind be idle enough to discover the world of mathematics on my own. How would this have happened in
Sharekhova, you are long gone from this world, I know. But you were a splendid, observant teacher. What brought you to that
You can make all the plans in the world, but God will fuck them up and be happy about it.
our denial of the lack of order in the physical world creates havoc.
Planes crash because of our false optimism. Boats turn over. As my son well knows, hurricanes destroy homes that we refuse to leave. The water and air around us can be destructive and we, more often than not, underestimate the magnitude of that destruction.
My cousin, Bruce, has an uncanny ability to detect who is sleeping with whom. I, on the other hand, have a finely tuned and less useful sense of who is a real rabbi and who is a poseur.
