Do Not Say We Have Nothing

by Madeleine Thien

There was Glenn Gould hunched over the piano, wearing a dark suit, hearing patterns far beyond the range of what most of us are given to perceive,

How many notes are there in Bach’s Goldberg Variations?

Somebody must know this.

“Q: How do you tell an extroverted mathematician from an introverted one? A: An extroverted mathematician stares at your shoes when talking to you.”