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Rec: Calculus by etherati

Jan 26, 2009 21:07

Hi again, this is eve11 and I'm quite thrilled to be taking up the baton for this week! I've got a mixed bag of stories from a few different eras with a few different lengths and styles, and I couldn't help but start off the week with a topic dear to my heart:

Story: Calculus
Author: etherati
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 556
Characters: Tenth Doctor
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author: etherati, type: gen, reccer: eve11, doctor:10, rating: all ages

Comments 8

hence_the_name January 27 2009, 04:03:27 UTC

This is one of the first DW fics I stumbled across when I started looking, a little over a year ago now. Gorgeous and haunting. It's still one of my favorite post-Doomsday vignettes.

eve11 January 27 2009, 11:18:37 UTC

Agreed. I like that it takes place post Doomsday, definitely a Tenth Doctor POV from that time, but tackles the idea on that larger scale of how ephemeral human companionship is for the Doctor, and how ephemeral everything is, when the limits extend far enough-- it's almost a comfort.

wendymr January 27 2009, 04:37:47 UTC

I have a mental block when it comes to maths (mild learning disability in that direction; I often can't add up single-digit numbers correctly), so calculus and complicated fractions are completely beyond me. Even with that handicap, I agree that this story flowed so very well, and very poignantly. Thanks for the rec!

eve11 January 27 2009, 11:19:35 UTC

you're welcome! I have a soft spot for math in fic, and this story really melds the two together beautifully.

:D etherati January 27 2009, 06:02:51 UTC

Thanks so much for reccing this! I'm perpetually amazed that people ever even find the stuff I write :D

Re: :D eve11 January 27 2009, 11:26:02 UTC

you're very welcome :) Thank you for writing it!

And I must confess I love your definition of limits. I think it's especially resonant when you consider how derivatives are defined as limits simultaneously across the entire x-axis: in that case you have a whole function-- well-formed and well-behaved, that exists simultaneously across the entire domain merely as a representation of that impossible set of circumstances. :)

elliptic_eye January 27 2009, 16:59:59 UTC

So glad that this finally got rec'ed, even if I'm going to have to refill yet another slot. It really is just beautiful.

eve11 January 27 2009, 21:45:30 UTC

Ah, I thought you might have that one queued, but alas, I could not resist. :)