Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question fur…

Yann Martel
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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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