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“Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way”

Stanislaw Lem

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In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter,…

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“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)”

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Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the…

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He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

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