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Annie Dillard | The Death of Archimedes

During the Roman assault on Syracuse, Archimedes, oblivious to the tumult around him, traced parabolas in the sand. When a soldier found him and tried to drag him to the Roman general, Archimedes said, “Pray, do not disturb my proof.” Unwilling to wait, evidently, the soldier killed him on the spot.

– Annie Dillard, For the Time Being

Portrait of the ancient Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Portrait of the ancient Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)

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  • Compares par la critique aux ?uvres de Virginia Woolf, de Gerard Manley Hopkins, d’ Emily Dickinson, de William Blake ou de John Donne, Annie Dillard a pour auteurs favoris Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Graham Greene, George Eliot et Ernest Hemingway .

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