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"Gardner's Whys and Wherefores includes articles on the puzzles in James Joyce's Ulysses and on the fantasies of Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Lord Dunsany, Gilbert Chesterton, and H. G. Wells. Gardner expresses strong opinions about the "anthropic principle," computer games capable of discovering scientific laws, the philosophy of W. V. Quine, Marvin Minsky's view of the workings of the mind, the idiosyncracies of social theorist Allan Bloom, the reality of unknown digits that "sleep" in pi, and whether physicists are really on the verge of discovering Everything."--BOOK JACKET..
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This sketch provides a deeper understanding of my novel The Life and Opinions of Marcus Aurelius Wherefore, an adventure into the fascinating twists and turns in the life of a man whose ironic sense of humor sees him through many failures into occasional joy and sets before the reader a satirical portrait of the modern world, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic..
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