Underachiever

Polly Shulman writes, in a review of "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" by David Foster Wallace (originally on Salon but received by me via Powell's Review-A-Day listserv):

The greatest thrill I remember from my girlhood -- better than my first kiss, first airplane flight, first taste of mango, first circuit around the ice rink without clinging to a grown-up's sleeve -- was the heart-lifting moment when I first understood Georg Cantor's Diagonal Proof of the nondenumerability of the real numbers.

Choke. Cough. No comment.