BtZ42 section 6. Roger Mexico

[Mark Kohut]

Monte posts:


>> Roger the statistician: "By the time one has pulled one’s nth victim or
part of a victim free of one’s nth pile of rubble, he told her once, angry,
weary, it has ceased to be that personal . . . the value of n may be
different for each of us, but I’m sorry: sooner or later . . ." (p. 41).
>>
>> Still in a Dylan Thomas mood, I'm hearing here "After the first death,
there is no other."


Don't we all remember when we 'learned' this feeling?
 Roger, not Pointsman is us.

I would dare that olde fallacy that P might *metaphorically* describe his
own math/science part of himself as
like a  " statistician", compared to the scientists and engineers we will
encounter in GR.
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