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An acclaimed author has written a novel nobody understands. Critics dismiss the work as nonsense. But one reader suspects that the book hides a truth so powerful it might hold the key to life itself.
Can he persuade the author reveal his secret?
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Senseless - Chandra Shekhar
Ten years ago, I wrecked Don’s literary career.
Now I had come halfway across the world to apologize to the man whose life I had ruined. When I knocked on his door, I feared he would greet me with a shotgun blast.
As it turned out, he had something far more explosive in store for me.
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Don had started writing a few years prior to my act of literary demolition. His first book, Chi Squared, was a respectable failure; his second and third fared only slightly better. Critics were ready to write him off. His friends and family told him to stick to his day job of teaching English to university freshmen.
With his fourth novel, however, he started to score. "Disguised as a pulse-pounding thriller, Mean, Mode, and Median presents a bleak yet in the end optimistic view of human nature," I wrote in my Guardian review. Cross Correlation, his next book, fared even better with critics and the reading public. Here again, the masterfully rendered thriller aspects served only to sugarcoat a searing condemnation of human behavior, which somehow ended on a positive note. After this, to increasing acclaim, came Uniform Distribution, Stochastic Process, Standard Deviation, and then the work that most critics consider his best, Random Numbers.
A cottage industry of academics sprang up to explain what the enigmatic statistics-themed titles meant. According to one authority, Uniform Distribution referred to activities at the army depot where the novel was set, while Standard Deviation pertained to the eccentricities of its protagonist. Another found religious implications in Cross Correlation. I believed Don chose the first book title on a whim and then retained the statistical conceit for consistency.
Beneath their fast-paced cloak-and-dagger motifs, each of these novels portrayed