David Foster Wallace, Once a Day
  • BOSTON GLOBE: Your book convinced me that irrational numbers [such as ?] can't possibly exist. I don't know what I was thinking, accepting them as real.
  • DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: You mean, mathematically real or physically real?
  • BG: Physically real.
  • DFW: But are numbers physically real?
  • BG: I had thought they were, in some way.
  • DFW: So you're a bit of a Platonist then.
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