How to navigate the universe
In order to explain why I wish to avoid talking about individual films in this column, I want to tell you how many different personal schedules it’s possible to construct from the 2019 New Zealand International Film Festival programme. But I can’t.
This is not because factorial maths makes my head hurt, although it does. It’s because writing the figure down would require filling an impractical percentage of this page with zeroes; it’s one of those unlikely-sounding numbers that exceed the number of atoms in the universe.
