I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Mark Haddon...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.
Mark HaddonI have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.
Mark HaddonAnd what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
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