'comically enough, Lowell's then girlfriend was a whiz at arithmetics, but otherwise a nitwit. you could ask her, "what is 5,111 times 10,022 divided by 97?" Claudia would reply, "that's 528,066.4. so what? so what?"
so what indeed! the lesson i myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. if facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.'
K. Vonnegut 'Hocus Pocus'
przyda się w przyszłym życiu zawodowym. (absolutorium już mam, od poniedziałku.) książka fantastyczna, tak swoją drogą.
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