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like nothing more than a bowl of cold porridge.” Alan Turing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015786 as looking like a

the longest novel ever written. This is not quite true. Wikipedia reckons the longest novel is a French book, Artamene, with over 2.1 million words. Tolstoy comes in sixteenth, with a mere half million! Written in 1869, War and Peace tells the story of five Russian families during the Napoleonic wars. Or

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rley. The Library of Babel. Boston: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2000. Chaitin, Gregory J. Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega. Atlantic Books, 2007. Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2001. Chapter 6 Ayer, A. J. Language, Truth and Logic. 2nd ed. Dover Publications Inc., 2002. Boal

of the best early members of the New Caste - like Alan Kay or John Seeley Brown- but also a series of fu

lives. A feeling of breathlessness in the face of speed isn’t new, of course. When Anna Karenina folds herself under an oncoming train at the end of Tolstoy’s novel, for instance, her suicide is as much metaphor as personal tragedy, a comment on the disorienting steam, engine, and rail pace of modernity.