I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”