“In all the rest of my life’s wanderings, I never met another person who spoke words to rival the beauty of mathematics.”

Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)

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American writer and klingonist 1959

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