Donnerstag and lunch with Felix
Oct. 29th, 2009 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersTook Felix to lunch as usual.
He's a bit less rational of late. He's been rereading his old university mathematical stuff, and some of his comments were not understandable. But amid the exceptional oddness some really bizarre gems shone through as being especially jaw-dropping, the best of which was: "No one can predict the behaviour of large numbers." I'm thinking of adopting it as a motto, but I may change the context.
I bought him a steak and a beer and sat and listened to him for a couple of hours, which was not as easy as usual, though there were a few lucid moments.
Apparently one-third of sufferers have a single episode of illness, one-third are ill until sometime in their fifties/sixties, and the last third never recover. We've all been hoping that he'll get better in his fifties, but it is looking more and more unlikely.
Fingers crossed and here's hoping, but I ain't counting any chickens as yet.
He's a bit less rational of late. He's been rereading his old university mathematical stuff, and some of his comments were not understandable. But amid the exceptional oddness some really bizarre gems shone through as being especially jaw-dropping, the best of which was: "No one can predict the behaviour of large numbers." I'm thinking of adopting it as a motto, but I may change the context.
I bought him a steak and a beer and sat and listened to him for a couple of hours, which was not as easy as usual, though there were a few lucid moments.
Apparently one-third of sufferers have a single episode of illness, one-third are ill until sometime in their fifties/sixties, and the last third never recover. We've all been hoping that he'll get better in his fifties, but it is looking more and more unlikely.
Fingers crossed and here's hoping, but I ain't counting any chickens as yet.
