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Notes on Infinity

by Austin Taylor · 2025

Harvard students Zoe and Jack find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they’ve discovered the cure for ageing. Zoe, the daughter of an MIT professor who grew up in her… more

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Funny how someone you thought of every waking moment for months, how a type of longing that was so significant it became a building block of your identity, eventually slips wholly from your mind.
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I don’t want to live forever,” Jack said, closing his eyes. “I just don’t want to die.
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She was thinking about the fact that a legend was standing in front of her, and that he had assumed she was not a scientist but a girlfriend.
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Is the love of my love my hated? Or is the love of my love my loved?
At least then she had been beautiful in flames. Now she was just burned. A ruin.
I don't want to live forever. I just don't want to die.
The actual length of the human life doesn't matter at all. It's like, do you think ants think their lives are extraordinarily short? Or do they think their lives are exactly the right length? The experienced length, the felt or perceived length no matter the absolute length, it's going to be exactly the same.
If she did not look through other people's eyes, she could not see herself. Because except through other people's eyes, she did not exist.

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Harvard students Zoe and Jack find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they’ve discovered the cure for ageing.

Zoe, the daughter of an MIT professor who grew up in her brother’s shadow, can envision her future anew at Harvard University. Jack, a boy in Zoe’s organic chemistry class with unruly hair and a gleam of competitiveness, matches her intellect and curiosity with every breath. When Jack refers Zoe for a position in a prestigious professor’s lab, the two become entwined as colleagues, staying up late to discuss scientific ideas. They find themselves on the cusp of a breakthrough: the promise of immortality through a novel anti-ageing drug.

Zoe and Jack set off on their new project in secret. Finding encouraging results, they bring their work to an investor, drop out of Harvard, and form a startup. But after the money, the magazi

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2025
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