The Indian Clerk (2009)
The Indian Clerk
“Hardy loathes introductions, the formality of first handshakes, the rote inquiries about the journey and the throat clearing afterward. If it were possible (and perhaps someday physics will make it possible) he would like to own a device akin to Wells's time machine, but more modest in purpose, designed so that one might leap over awkward moments and into a more tolerable future. Instantly. If you had such a machine, you would never have to wait for the results of an examination to be posted, o...r judge whether the newly arrived "Ph.D." from Princeton was going to answer your advances with friendliness or hostility. Instead you could just pull a lever or push a button and be already in possession of your exam results, or on the way to bed with the friendly "Ph.D.," or safe at home after being rebuffed by the hostile one. And if you knew that you wouldn't have to go through these things, then you wouldn't have to dread them. As Hardy dreads this first meeting, this first lunch with Ramanujan.MoreLess
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