Persuasion for a Mathematician* enlists friends and a child, a mathematician, a cleaning lady in Toronto's Rosedale, and the ardent chronicles of Renaissance painters and princes to grapple with the urgent question, Why Live? The reflexive reply *you must take my word for it* hitches itself out in buckets of water and silver polish, meadows and invention, Conception Bay icebergs and Leonardo's Great Swan, and takes flight. -- Lucid, painterly, rich in idiom and movement, Page's *Persuasion* is at once call and answer, ...
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Persuasion for a Mathematician* enlists friends and a child, a mathematician, a cleaning lady in Toronto's Rosedale, and the ardent chronicles of Renaissance painters and princes to grapple with the urgent question, Why Live? The reflexive reply *you must take my word for it* hitches itself out in buckets of water and silver polish, meadows and invention, Conception Bay icebergs and Leonardo's Great Swan, and takes flight. -- Lucid, painterly, rich in idiom and movement, Page's *Persuasion* is at once call and answer, chorus and response, a great antiphon that opens fiercely to dialogue and insists on life.
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