#169 How Long It Takes
On Sunday afternoons he did math problems. He hadn't had a math class in seventeen years, which was a prime number by the way, and he liked doing them. He still took them out of the same textbook he'd had in college.
If life were like this, he thought to his problems, I would like it much better. If life were like this, I could probably put this book away.
If life were like this, his problems thought back, we'd be stuck by ourselves in a landfill somewhere, wondering how long it takes to get to St. Louis by train.
—2009-09-14 12:09:05
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