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START: KNOX: Did I tell you what happened to my brother?
TURING: What was that?
KNOX: They were having a dinner party. It was some time ago, during the Blitz. Eddie was just about to open a bottle of claret when a bomb fell nearby. Tremendous explosion. Bang! Guess what happened?
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END: KNOX: I sat down there and then, with the book in my hand, and memorized what he had written. This is what he said: “We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely unanswered.”
Hugh Whitemore. Breaking the Code. Samuel French, 1988. pp.35-40.
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