I actually really enjoyed the article especially the fog of confusion that exists in a writer with respect to what might seem ancillary tools of the trade. I have been having similar thoughts lately. Just today, I was walking in damp weather and saw a number 2 pencil on the ground. I wondered if in the right hands it would be the tool with which the Riemann hypothesis is solved. Whereas me, with all the fancy pens and inks, writes relatively trivial things with them.
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