Gerald Wallerstein Equations
“Easier to wrest each day from the finite life if you think mathematically”, Hart said. He spoke that way, and I would not describe him , I have no right, but that we agreed on the point. “Every sentence has the same weight on earth as every other”, he added, and with that I also agreed. Two men not so young any more, building a bulwark against pain. The last time I saw him he was sitting on a worn-out sofa, while his lover waited outside for a taxi. She had found a sentence that weighed more than any other: “We’re through!” I sat with him while he pondered. “Sontag”, he said, “says all philosophy dissolves into mathematics. But how long”, he wondered. “How long will it take?”