"As Beadle stepped up to the podium in Stockholm to receive his [Nobel Prize] from the king, a..."

“As Beadle stepped up to the podium in Stockholm to receive his [Nobel Prize] from the king, a courier walked in,” Davis narrates, his eyes widening. “He handed beadle a ladder-like toothpick model, each rung stained in one of four colors. Beadle decoded the message on the spot,” Davis says, his voice trailing to a whisper. “I AM THE RIDDLE OF LIFE KNOW ME AND YOU WILL KNOW YOURSELF,” read the toothpicks. “I found that so moving, so moving,” Davis says.”



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