from The Recognitions

[Tim Strzechowski]

That's pretty hilarious, actually.





> 'The cosmos of Sir James Jeans, reigned over by a deity whose symbol is the 
> square root of minus one, where in closed rooms they argue the weight of the 
> crucified man sufficient to cause strangulation, and the Irish mathematician 
> Sir William Rowan Hamilton calculates that Jesus in assumption, being drawn 
> up through space at a moderate rate, would not yet have reached the nearest 
> of the fixed stars'. P. 301
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