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A world of complications.(The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe)(Book review)
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, by Roger Penrose; Vintage Books, 2006, $49,95.
THERE ARE MANY great mysteries in life, and one of them is why people without a trace of music in their souls go to concerts. Is it in order to be thought to have a taste for music? Or is it a feeling that sucking boiled sweets while listening to strange noises is somehow uplifting? Do they believe they are being purified by suffering? Such people worry me: the happy philistine who has never been to a classical concert and would pay to avoid one is to me a brother by comparison.
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