Three O'Clock in the Morning: A Novel

the intelligence you need to really understand law has a very particular structure that’s very similar to that of mathematicians.

The hotel was in an unremarkable modern building, definitely more comfortable than the one we’d been in the first time. It was close to the Canebière, the most famous street in Marseilles, which links the middle-class neighborhood of Réformés to the Vieux Port.

Notre-Dame de la Garde was a building of impressive dimensions, all in marble, neo-romantic in style, located at the highest point of the city.

All teenagers suffer from the same schizophrenia. They do all they can to be the same and dream of being different.

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“Why did you make me draw you?” I asked when it was clear that he wanted to hear me ask it. He smiled, as if playing a little game. “For many years I’ve been trying to study the possible links between epilepsy and talent, especially artistic talent. I’ve written a number of articles on the subject. Many great people were epileptics.” “Who were epil

“Oh, yes, the joke. An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician are traveling across Scotland by train when they see a black sheep in a meadow. The astronomer exclaims, ‘How interesting, in Scotland the sheep are black!’ The physicist looks at him with a hint of disgust. ‘You astronomers are always making arbitrary generalizations. Actually, th

This is basically a novel about communication, a story of a father and son who, through extraordinary circumstances, are forced to spend time together and, in doing so, to discover truths about each other they might not otherwise have learned. They do this mainly by talking, really talking to each other, for the first time in their lives.

There are occasions when you need to talk, and you mustn’t take anything for granted. Then there are other occasions when you have to keep silent because there’s something intangible, something precious in the air, and your words might dispel it in an instant. These are two simple concepts. The hard part is to know when to apply one rule and when t