For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else. - Michael Frayn
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
- Michael Frayn
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valuel… - Michael Frayn
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valuel…
I feel bad that I don't feel worse. - Michael Frayn
I feel bad that I don't feel worse.
You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck. - Michael Frayn
You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.
And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, wh… - Michael Frayn
And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, wh…
When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now. - Michael Frayn
When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes. - Michael Frayn
No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to … - Michael Frayn
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to …
Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed. - Michael Frayn
Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
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