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Mikhail Nikolayevich If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them
“That we shall die?”
“Yes. There’s really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer…The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
The Left Hand of Darkness
U K LeGuin
Mikhail Nikolayevich If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them
was after reading the Wikipedia on Wronski that I was taken with this idea.
In 1822 he returned to France, and again took up a combination of mathematics and fantastical pursuits, largely in poverty and scorned by intellectual society. Along with his continuing Pythagorean obsession, he spent much time working on several notoriously futile endeavors, including attempts to build a perpetual motion machine, to square the circle, and to build a machine to predict the future (which he dubbed the “prognometre”)...
Mikhail Nikolayevich If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them
with this goal expect to see others along the lines of
learn how to place a bet on a horse race
spend a day at the races
visit the dog track
buy a lottery ticket
learn about the stock market
