Grandes Temas en Dos Volumenes

[…] Then all of a sudden, when I was driving to the next village so I could eat something, in the expanse of the Mongolian desert, I had an epiphany. A part of my brain that was turned off eight months ago, spontaneously rebooted. Wherever I saw, I saw patterns. They arranged themselves into problems, which I’d try and solve. Mole-rat holes on the ground would become 8-Queens. Longitudes and latitudes were prime numbers - or were they?

And I liked it. It was like finding an old friend. Even though I loved the simple, clear thought process devoid of any background threads analysing everything, I realised, in the end, that I did those things for living because I Liked It. I went to a university to study it because I Liked It. […]