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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Many theories have been offered on the birth and death of the universe, but I’m convinced that the strangest by far is the notion of eternal recurrence, central to the philosophy of Nietzsche. On this hypothesis, when the world ends, it starts up again, and the same events will occur over and over—your first date, the Ali-Frazier fight, Geraldo opening …

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