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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Mr. Universe |
 | | "The fundamental description of how the universe works has changed three or four times in the past 15 years alone," he says, "which just shows you how open those questions are. |
 | | Within the multilayered narrative he has constructed are 49 characters with distinctive physical and metaphysical attributes, woven into a complex cosmology that draws liberally from mythology, thermodynamics, cartography, mathematics, quantum physics, dice games, voodoo, cartoons, and other sources, highbrow and low. |
 | | Never terribly keen on academics -- he earned a BFA from a London art school after spending a semester at Boston University in 1982 -- and with no clear career path ahead, by chance (that word again) he got a job as a building superintendent. |
| www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/11/mr_universe (1630 words) |
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