A kind of Pythagorean terror, as though the irrationality of pi were an offence against the deity, not to mention his creature.
ATTRIBUTION:
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. “Three Dialogues,” by Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit, p. 21, in Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Martin Esslin, Prentice-Hall (1965).
