Irascibility makes the world go round

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IDEAS: So, even though you’ve resisted the brainwashing, are you a Platonist? Do you think mathematical concepts exist?

WALLACE: Personally, yeah, I’m a Platonist. I think that God has particular languages, and one of them is music and one of them is mathematics. That’s not something I can defend. It’s just something I’ve felt in my tummy since I was a little kid, but how exactly to try to make sense of that and to fit it in any kind of a working philosophy, much less cross the street to buy a loaf of bread, is a different matter.

” - Old interview with David Foster Wallace