On Wanting To Believe
"It was war that destroyed Lenord Trimble's body, but his wounds went deeper than the loss of his limbs. What destroyed those parts of him that make us human beings, those better angels of our nature? I cannot say." - Fox Mulder I watched a lot of X-Files during my first year of graduate school. I would spend most of the day confused in math textbooks and papers then go home to turn on X-Files while eating dinner. One night while watching the show I started wondering why something about Mulder and Scully's search for aliens felt familiar to me. X-Files is a fictional TV show about two FBI agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who investigate paranormal cases, i.e. they look for aliens. Mulder "wa...
