Though the glory of our humanness is our spontaneous creativity, we too as creatures of physics, & chemistry, of memory & hope tend to fall in to repetitious patterns - these patterns are the death of our creativity
-Terrance McKenna
"The sky was so bright and starry that when you looked at it the first question that came into your mind was whether it was really possible that all sorts of bad-tempered and unstable people could live under such a glorious sky." - White Nights, Dostoevsky
Millennium Puzzle is proof artists can evolve and still stay true to themselves, still authentic - without selling out🔥 Yes, @AsapTwelvyy it is vital that we still dream
If the all-time greatest authors lived in the same house: Borges would occupy the master bedroom. Dostoevsky the floor below, but above the basement apartment where Camus resides. And that's it. Everyone else is on the outside looking in.. including Kafka, Huxley & Hesse.
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest- health, integrity, purity (if you like)- is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
@ericweinstein I'm currently reading Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife.
I do not have any background in mathematics but at the very least it seems to be very historically insightful
I'm curious of your opinion of the book (if any), its accuracy, etc. ?