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| 04:46pm 14/12/2003 |
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I like the dedication of A Mathematician's Apology:
To
JOHN LOMAS
who asked me to write it
::gets down to reading:: Let's see if I can finish this (with notes) tonight; possibly even do some more research and write the damn paper. :P
edit: "For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift."
"Young men ought to be conceited: but they oughtn't to be imbecile."
moredit: "Good work is not done by 'humble' men."
moremoredit: "A man's first duty, a young man's at any rate, is to be ambitious." |
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| 06:58pm 14/12/2003 |
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mood:  lonely, scared
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This is a sad book. |
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| 08:04pm 14/12/2003 |
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Here, on the level sand,
Between the sea and land,
What shall I build or write
Against the fall of night?
Tell me of runes to grave
That hold the bursting wave,
Or bastions to design
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| 09:47pm 14/12/2003 |
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mood:  full
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"Many people, of course, use 'sentimentalism' as a term of abuse for other people's decent feelings, and 'realism' as a disguise for their own brutality."
Uhh.. ::hides:: |
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