It could have very well been this line...

Sep 27, 2010 16:36

... from Jumpers that made me fall hopelessly, deeply and endlessly in love with Tom Stoppard:

It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.
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