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Stuart Rojstaczer
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A love story, more or less, for Valentine’s Day
I was hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Maine. 1975. I’d never done much hiking in the East. I was used to drinking water straight from moving streams. Five days in, I got sick as a dog from the water. Fever, chills. I talked to a hiker, an old dude, about this. You’re going to need some chemicals, son, he said. I didn’t have chemicals. I crawled off the trail, cramping the whole way and found a
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“Her craziness was happily wed to her intellect. There are no reasonable geniuses in this world, I am convinced.”
― The Mathematician's Shiva
― The Mathematician's Shiva
“We expect and demand people to maintain bonds with family. It doesn’t matter whether you love or hate your relatives, even ones you’ve legally divorced. As long as there are children involved, you stick together.”
― The Mathematician's Shiva
― The Mathematician's Shiva
“Survival, to my mind, implies a finite probability that without luck and cunning, you will perish.”
― The Mathematician's Shiva
― The Mathematician's Shiva
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