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Adrian Buck is on page 49 of 245

"Not until the development of radio astronomy in the fifties was there incontrovertible experimental verification, but essentially the years of practical striving were irrelevant. The Theory [of Relativity] was already in the textbooks from the twenties onwards. It's integral power was so great, it was too beautiful to resist."

— Oct 28, 2016 07:54AM

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Adrian Buck is on page 187 of 245

"I had come to the slow acknowledgement that the mind altering substance of choice in a pressured, successful middle life is alcohol." - McEwan mounts a defence of booze :)

— Oct 30, 2016 10:51PM

Adrian Buck is on page 152 of 245

"There were no constraints of theological nicety or religious observance, no social sanction or congregational calling to account, none of the moral framework that made religions viable, however failed their cosmologies." - the interesting questions becomes why do they hang on their cosmologies? Why did they need them in the first place? cf Plato's vision of final judgement.

— Oct 30, 2016 10:48PM

Adrian Buck is on page 148 of 245

"'You think you can read your way out of this". She was suddenly angry and no longer crying. 'Don't you realise you've got a problem?'"

— Oct 30, 2016 10:43PM

Adrian Buck is on page 83 of 245

"He seems unaware that his arguments are no more than ravings, they are an aberration and they have a cause."

— Oct 28, 2016 01:06PM

Adrian Buck is on page 29 of 245

"Like a self in a dream I was both first and third person"

— Oct 24, 2016 10:13AM

Adrian Buck is on page 16 of 245

So that's it, the terrible thing has happened.. or perhaps not. So glad to be back in the world of old adult fiction.