Here it is, an absolutely beautiful spring day, and what am I doing? I'm at the Reg, realising I don't know how to calculate the fundamental group of a connected sum. When did math stop being fun? Possibly when it started being hard? I don't know.
A Cool Web of Language
There's a cool web of language weaves us in,
Retreat from too much joy and too much fear:
We grow sea-green at least and coldly die
In brininess and volubility.
--Robert Graves
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