I Was In An Industrial Laboratory Because

There Are Very Complex Shapes Which Would Be The Same From Close By And Far Away.

A Formula Can Be Very Simple, And Create A Universe Of Bottomless Complexity.

If You Assume Continuity, You Can Open The Well-stocked Mathematical Toolkit Of Continuous Functions And Differential Equations, The Saws And Hammers Of Engineering And Physics For The Past Two Centuries (and The Foreseeable Future).

I Was In An Industrial Laboratory Because Academia Found Me Unsuitable

I Had Many Books And I Had Dreams Of All Kinds. Dreams In Which Were In A Certain Sense, How To Say, Easy To Make Because The Near Future Was Always Extremely Threatening.