good morning! i'm back (hopefully i write and publish this today).
update: i did not. but i covered sleep debt, so i'm now ready for the next two (very busy) weeks.
update 2: i write from the end of week 1 of exams, and they're going okay! i seem to have an affinity for a cold and cough that only manifests during exams, presumably to build character. thank you, illness, very kind of you. all art-y endeavours are on pause, my ukulele left aside, my blog dusty, yet i'm here. it will all resume soon. i've been reading the three body problem voraciously, and it's one of the most beautiful books i've read. the higher levels of abstraction you go into any pure field, you end up at philosophy. maths has converged there so many times for me, and it's beautiful every time we get there. prashant sir once asked, to understand the class, why do we learn?
nobody really had an answer for him, but maybe there isn't one. to me, it's always about the pursuit of knowledge, wanting to know how it progresses because it's unraveling secrets i did not know, and now i do know.
what a clever formula!
but she would say, this formula is so elegant, so beautiful.
the expression on her face was the same as when she saw a pretty wildflower.
- cixin liu, tr. ken liu, the three body problem
it's not so common that we find something we relate to, feel, in media. not in the repeat stuff way, but when it feels as though the writer has reached through the pages and seen your heart, rendered you transparent. not even people who see you every day can do that. this line from For M
always does that to me.