Monday, February 14, 2011

Something To Ponder

"It is tempting to borrow some of this linear imagery and say that, like Goethe's Faust, [the idea of] zero came through its dark struggles by cleaving to the one true way. But history walks on human feet."
-Robert Kaplan

1 comment:

Kevin said...

I can review Kaplan's book in one word: purple.


But I happen to like purple prose in some contexts.