Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coat–graceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped over–she was nevertheless one of those people whose personality proved to be the bane of modern mathematicians. She was neither a flat nor solid shape. She showed no symmetry at all. Trigonometry, Calculus and Statistics all proved useless. Her Pie Chart was a muddle of arbitrary wedges, her Line Graph, the silhouette of the Alps. And just when one listed her under Chaos Theory–Butterfly Effects, Weather Predictions, Fractals, Bifurcation diagrams and whatnot–she showed up as an equilateral triangle, sometimes even a square. Marisha Pessl
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