April 3, 2007
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“But what is it?”
Calvin demanded.
“We know that it’s evil,
but what is it?”“Yyouu hhave ssaidd itt!”
Mrs. Which’s voice rang out.
“Itt iss Eevill. Itt iss thee
Ppowers of Ddarrkknesss!”
“After A Wrinkle in Time was
finally published, it was pointed out to me that the villain, a naked
disembodied brain, was called ‘It’ because It stands for Intellectual
truth as opposed to a truth which involves the whole of us, heart as
well as mind. That acronym had never occurred to me. I
chose the name It intuitively, because an IT does not have a heart or
soul. And I did not understand consciously at the time of writing
that the intellect, when it is not informed by the heart, is evil.”“When all is said and done,science is about things andtheology is about words.”
– Freeman Dyson,
New York Review of Books,
issue dated May 28, 1998
“Does the word ‘tesseract’
mean anything to you?“
