Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains, each link locked into the one before it, the theorems and functions, one thing making the next inevitable. It's music, hanging there in the middle of space, meaning nothing but itself, and so moving...'
John UpdikeItโs spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sodโ Small letters sent To her from God.
John UpdikeFaith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.
John Updike