Showing posts with label turtles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label turtles. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Turtles All The Way Down


One of the real joys of my current situation is that I am finally able to make a start on the list of books I've never had a chance to read. My current reading is A Brief History Of Time: I'd read reports that it is a difficult read, but I've not had any issues during the first few chapters.

However it was the opening that really struck me: a description of Bertrand Russell being interrupted in a lecture by a lady who insisted that the world was flat and carried on the back of a tortoise. Surely Nanny Ogg cannot have escaped from the Discworld?

Subsequently I did some research and found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

For some reason some people ignore the elephants and think in terms of multiple turtles!