This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic-rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road-typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it
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What he proposes is an elegant and fascinating idea: that our physical world not only is described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. Where do we come from? What makes the universe the way it is? In essence, why are we here? With dazzling clarity, Max Tegmark ponders these deep mysteries and allows us to grasp the most cutting-edge and mind-boggling theories of physics. Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, across every possible scale - from the sub-atomic to the intergalactic - showing how mathematics provides the answers to our questions about the world. In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, Max Tegmark proposes a radical idea: that our reality is not only described by mathematics: it is mathematics. It is found that this novel was actually a letter to Ty. She begins to realize that she has genuinely developed feeling for Ty and she fights herself over it. He is now faced with turning himself in by bringing her to get help, or letting her die.Īfter Ty decides to bring her to the hospital, Gemma is struggling with both the physical and emotional effects of her kidnapping. Though Ty has the antivenom on hand, it fails to contain the infection. Eventually, she realized it was no use and begrudgingly allowed Ty to take her back.Īfter about a month of being held captive by Ty, Gemma is bit by a venomous snake. She runs and runs and runs, but there's no civilization to be seen anywhere. While still new to the deserts of Australia, Gemma tries to escape. Before she even had the chance to get his name, she wakes up in a mysterious place. At this coffee shop she meets Tyler 'Ty' MacFarlane. Gemma was at Bangkok Airport, waiting to return home to London when she decides to go to a coffee shop. He wants to keep her free from harm, safe, by stealing her and keeping her close forever. He keeps her for over 2 weeks, but never hurts her. Ty, the antagonist of this novel, abducts Gemma, the 16 year old protagonist, from the airport. |