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mutually exclusive tales – each meant as a point in the possibility space, all meant to illustrate the enormity of our ignorance – what better than a number that can stand for something indiscriminately vast?
    David Eagleman, author of Sum and Incognito

Forty Words

    Stephanie Wolfe Murray, founder of Canongate Books, 1973

    Jamie Byng, Publisher and Managing Director Canongate Books, 1994–present