Spark in the Umbra

When I was at high school, my two best subjects were Physics and English. I loved fiction and drama and I was also rather partial to calculus and formulae.

It was a strange tension even then and it has never really left me.

Whilst geeks often have a fairly wide and eclectic palette of interests, most of my friends still had a single centre of geek gravity.

I definitely seemed to have two and they pulled in decidedly different directions, so I was forever caught between the worlds of Intellect and Emotion.

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