Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 45 (p. 504)
“Bujak spoke of Einstein as if he were God's literary critic, God being a poet. I, more stolidly, tend to suspect that God is a novelist — a garrulous and deeply unwholesome one too.”
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Martin Amis
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Einstein's Monsters
"Bujak and the Strong Force"
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
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Les chrétiens n'ont qu'un Dieu, maître absolu de tout,
De qui le seul vouloir fait tout ce qu'il résout;
Mais, si j'ose entre nous dire ce que me semble,
Les nôtres bien souvent s'accordent mal ensemble,
Et, me dût leur colère écraser à tes yeux,
Nous en avons beaucoup pour être de vrais dieux.
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Variant of last lines: As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
Polyeucte (1642)
Page 184.
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