Chance, Complexity, and Narrative Explanation

Human activities might be classified according to the number of words that they require; the more words there are, the worse case their character is in. All the knowledge by means of which our species has advanced from dressing in skins to flying through the air--with its proofs, all complete-would fill no more than the shelves of a small reference library, whereas a bookcase the size of the earth itself would be utterly insufficient to hold all the rest, quite apart from the very extensive discussion that has been conducted not with the pen but with chains and the sword. Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities (Part I, chapter 61)

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