Mathematicians can be so silly sometimes. Like when they invent words like clopen - a set that is both closed and open. Thus, clopen.

I hope to never have to say this word out loud in my life.

Signs the book you're reading is going to be a very painful journey:

1. The only text in chapter 1 is "The first chapter is omitted for the time being." The novel then proceeds to chapter 2.

"I will tell you another thing that would be better, and that is, if I myself believed in anything of what I have just written. I swear to you, gentlemen, there is not one thing, not one word of what I have written that I really believe. That is, I believe it, perhaps, but at the same time I feel and suspect that I am lying like a cobbler."HOW 

Days like this, reading short stories and novels like this, I can't help but to think that surely, I must have been Russian in my past life! A little black-haired, dark-eyed Russian girl! (Or perhaps a burly Russian man?)

I have to write an essay for my class on Tolstoy ( Read more... )

I think I might be going insane.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/fashion/08halfmill.html?_r=1

I hate rich people. They just make my heart hurt so much. This isn't new, but I always try to avoid thinking about it because it's just frustrating and I can't do anything about it. Anyway, this ( Read more... )

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In the days before the new semester began, I wondered if perhaps I did not love Russian literature as much as I would have liked me to believe. At that point, I hadn't taken a literature class since last Spring. At least, I remembered truly enjoying, nay, near-worshiping Dostoevsky, but perhaps somewhere along the way, my memory became corrupted ( Read more... )

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