Adults are infinitely more aware of the real and terrible dangers we all face, but have no idea how to deal with them and are basically alone in this world.
Tobias Menzies delivers the densely worded monologue with an admirable ease, troubled, infinitely self-aware, like a man trying to work out the final statement of his life.
Nature, we are aware, is infinitely resourceful, yet sometimes we wonder how she manages to adjust herself to man's capricious pressures.
By Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, June 2 , 1956P. 23 Nature, we are aware, is infinitely resourceful, yet sometimes we wonder how she manages to adjust herself to man's capricious pressures.
But is infinite information infinitely valuable?
Berger's essay continues: "That is to say, instead of being aware of a point as an infinitely small part of a straight line, we are aware of it as an infinitely small part of an infinite number of lines, as the centre of a star of lines" (as a result of his enthusiasm for asterisks, Sterne was known as "The Vicar of Stars").
Yes, I'm aware that whatever is on Mommy's plate is infinitely better than what's on yours, even if it's the same exact thing.
It is possible to edit the city into an extraordinarily pleasant, civil, amenities-rich archipelago of urban spaces -- always aware, however, in the back of one's mind, of that infinitely nondescript, ever-expanding strip-mall, industrial edge of town, the receding periphery that is larger Houston.
Happily, the stage version lightens up a little on the cute, smart-alecky asides ("My fevered brain seethed with the effort to come up with an infinitely subtle device to implant the air rifle indelibly into my parents' consciousness without their being aware of it"), making room for the music and allowing the story mostly to speak for itself.
