C. P. Snow on G. H. Hardy in the foreword to
A Mathematician's Apology :
"… he had another favourite entertainment.
'Mark that man we met last night,'
he said, and someone had to be marked
out of 100 in each of the categories
Hardy had long since invented and defined.
STARK, BLEAK ('a stark man is not necessarily
bleak: but all bleak men without exception
want to be considered stark')…."
Related material :
Tommy Lee Jones in The New York Times on Nov. 6th, 2014,
and Pierce Brosnan in the 2014 film "The November Man" :
“Geometry was very important to us in this movie.”
— The Missing ART (Log24, November 7th, 2014)