The city is like a great palimpsest, a manuscript that has been written and rewritten over the centuries.
城市就像一张巨大的重写羊皮纸，几个世纪以来被反复书写和重写。
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
The Langlands program is a testament to the interconnectedness of all areas of mathematics.