If scientists at the Santa Fe Institute cured death, or teleported matter, or widened the electromagnetic spectrum, their central achievement would still be the befriending of Cormac McCarthy. America’s greatest living writer is not known to mingle much outside this maverick research group in the New Mexico steppe. His latest novels, which digress into mathematics and string theory, bear the stamp of his learned friends.
就算是聖塔菲研究所(Santa Fe Institute)的科學家們找到了長生不老藥，或實現了隔空傳物，或增寬了電磁波譜，他們的主要成就仍會是與科馬克•麥卡錫(Cormac McCarthy)成爲了朋友。衆所周知，除了新墨西哥州乾草原上這羣特立獨行的科學家之外，這位美國最偉大的在世作家沒有多少別的朋友。他的最新小說寫到了數學和絃論，反映出這羣博學朋友對他的影響。
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