Chapter 4Adam had first read Strangers in Paradigms back in his undergraduate days. But when he got home from Ann Arbor, he carefully undid Ted’s wrapping and set the book on a table next to the reading chair in his study. He poured a glass of cabernet and worked on his preparations for the next afternoon, even though he had all of Thursday morning to devote to them as well unless he turned out to be surprisingly popular with his students or colleagues and thus had a number of office visits.
He realized he was deliberately delaying the pleasure of examining his new book.
Hungry, still unable to remember exactly what he’d had for lunch, he popped a couple of Pillsbury biscuits into the oven and reheated some leftover stew, which he dug into with gusto.
After his meal, he turned his atten
