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You will learn what happens when a young man chases his fiancée right into the fourth dimension. . . and how a distinguished professor disappeared during a demonstration and fell headlong into a strip-teaser's act. . . and how a portion of Boston's underground system once vanished from the face of the earth - or was it the bowels?. . . and how long it would take to walk past all the books that could possibly be written. . . and how six monkeys might have written all those books if they hadn't been stopped. . . and even how universal socialism may be attained through a simple problem in sixth-grade arithmetic.And that is by no means all. Besides these lighthearted tales, there are engaging little problems, engaging little poems, and - just once in a while - a profoundly moving piece of literature such as Aldous Huxley's story of the Italian peasant boy who might have become a mathematical genius. And all of this from such brilliant writers as H. G. Wells, Arthur Koestler, Karel Capek, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Schnitzler, Plato, and a googol of others. ... Read more