Word: theorems
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...even-numbered scenes take place in the present at the same estate, Sidley Park, where bickering historians attempt to reconstruct the story of what happened in the other scenes. Arcadia is an extended rumination on love, sex, history and entropy that revolves around discussions of Fermat's Last Theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, Byron's poetry and the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism in England. That Arcadia is not exactly an accessible work did not bother the audience in the Agassiz Theatre, however, who took the self-conscious intellectualism in stride and laughed along with Stoppard...
...true, this might explain everything. Gore's personality, difficult to grasp in American terms, seems perfectly coherent and natural if transplanted north of the 48th parallel. Indeed, as the Canadian Theorem settles into the imagination, one begins to wonder if there may have been some switched-at-birth scenario years ago that landed the infant Albert far south of the Canadian border, all the way down in Tennessee, while, at the same time, a tow-headed changeling from the chigger latitudes wound up in a snowbank in the Haliburton Highlands...
Bradley's lineup of other NBA All-Stars has not brought him victories. He lost the Iowa caucuses, in spite of Russell's ad. Shaquille O'Neal gained more publicity for an ill-advised comment on the Pythagorean theorem than for his endorsement of Bradley. Former Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson is running Bradley's Illinois campaign, but at this rate Bradley may not make it to the Illinois primary...