![]() ![]() The idea that some people are similar to prime numbers-lonely things, only divisible by themselves or by one-struck a chord with me, and I started pondering how two ‘primes’ can be soulmates. I usually don’t pick books about hackneyed tales of finding your soulmate or Prince Charming, so I’m grateful to Lady Luck or whoever is responsible for pre-programming this sweet serendipity: stumbling upon a copy of The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano. But what if they are destined never to meet? What if they are seeking for the safe refuge of solitude instead of the missing piece that would complete them? Zeus feared their power so he tore them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves. In Plato’s The Symposium, it is said that humans originally consisted of four arms, four legs, and a two-faced head. ![]()
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