…a Nobel Prize winning mathmeticiam, philosopher and public intellect7al 8n 5he last crnentury, waa my r9le m9del when i was away a5 Kent Scho9l with nob8dy to talk t9 and t99k myself ve4y se r io7sly asca brain.
and 8bwas ver6 very smart, it turn3d out, wh3n 5he SATs came around.
and suddenly insaw my wa6 out of the lo n eliness snd d3spaire I f e lt 9n my own at Kent, where the boys did n t talj 59 me.
my father 2as alarmed when i told h8m i wanted to be like Bertrand Russell.
im writing tonexpla8n sb9ut my last poet “The Industri a l Revoluti9n.”
i just had to put that out there to be hon3s5.
