17 January 2004

juldea: (by mercy)
[livejournal.com profile] karlean7 got me started on a new book trilogy, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I read it during the 30-45 minutes/day I work out on the treadmill or elliptical machine. It makes the time go by super-fast. I've managed to finish the first book already and am on the second. I have a few bones to pick about the plot (some things are too obvious, some others aren't obvious enough, etc) but generally they're enjoyable books, and have some good quotes. One of which is the reason I bring this up.

This quote is spoken from a father to a child, who asks that Adam and Eve aren't real, they're just fairy tales, right?



"...think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it."



Not going to sway me over to any religious beliefs, but a very interesting idea nonetheless.
juldea: (by mercy)
[livejournal.com profile] karlean7 got me started on a new book trilogy, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I read it during the 30-45 minutes/day I work out on the treadmill or elliptical machine. It makes the time go by super-fast. I've managed to finish the first book already and am on the second. I have a few bones to pick about the plot (some things are too obvious, some others aren't obvious enough, etc) but generally they're enjoyable books, and have some good quotes. One of which is the reason I bring this up.

This quote is spoken from a father to a child, who asks that Adam and Eve aren't real, they're just fairy tales, right?



"...think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it."



Not going to sway me over to any religious beliefs, but a very interesting idea nonetheless.
juldea: (makeup)
I spent two hours this evening waxing my right leg. Yes folks, just the right one. I'll do the left one tomorrow. I don't want to stay up for two more hours contorting my body in the necessary ways. Much less the mess.

Stupid me getting a job where this'll be important...
juldea: (makeup)
I spent two hours this evening waxing my right leg. Yes folks, just the right one. I'll do the left one tomorrow. I don't want to stay up for two more hours contorting my body in the necessary ways. Much less the mess.

Stupid me getting a job where this'll be important...
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