While writing this blog my theme develops around “there isn’t a single truth”, so reading a book that features “an epic search for truth” might not exactly be my thing. Well, in fact, it is. I read Logicomix in one stretch and I was delighted. It contains insights I wished I had known before.
A story about people
Logicomix is a book that treats a very heavy-handed subject in a light way. It is about complicated science, it is about the foundations of science and – whatever we feel about it – it is about knowledge that ultimately influences all and everything around us. So normally this kind of subject is handled in a very serious, sacred atmosphere where full rational attention would be required and any frivolous dissipation would be considered out of bounds.
The writers of Logicomix however chose to give their story a form that is eminently frivolous: a comic book.
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