If scientists at the Santa Fe Institute cured death, or teleported matter, or widened the electromagnetic spectrum, their central achievement would still be the befriending of Cormac McCarthy. America’s greatest living writer is not known to mingle much outside this maverick research group in the New Mexico steppe. His latest novels, which digress into mathematics and string theory, bear the stamp of his learned friends.
就算是圣塔菲研究所(Santa Fe Institute)的科学家们找到了长生不老药，或实现了隔空传物，或增宽了电磁波谱，他们的主要成就仍会是与科马克•麦卡锡(Cormac McCarthy)成为了朋友。众所周知，除了新墨西哥州干草原上这群特立独行的科学家之外，这位美国最伟大的在世作家没有多少别的朋友。他的最新小说写到了数学和弦论，反映出这群博学朋友对他的影响。
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