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But whatever chance insight be posited in these equations of personage over time
present to any inquiring desperation a fully charged mirage in which numbers can
be said to play games with old men like nursery rhymes and wives’ tales, all the
follies of Medieval medicine or hallucination. In the open seas and marginalia of
human experience perhaps once, or twice, clarity has prevailed. But this is no given.
Alchemies persist with a fury; solidity is transmogrified into faint edges of metaphysical purpose that re-tools in a manner befitting this undying hope that our species can change.
In as much as every proof is subject to the illogical, logic itself must necessarily
scorn each flying fish and caterpillar. The tyranny of logic is the liberation of
Fig. 68.4 “Primates,” as pictured in Filippo Luigi Gilil’s Systema Naturae Di Linneo, Volume 1,
1785
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