[lit-ideas] Re: Einstein -Scene 2
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:15:23 -0500
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 11/1/2005 4:11:59 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Einstein -Scene 2
>
> >>This caricaturization captures the type of conversation
> Outsider Einstein
> would have had with his wife and the people in his circle. He
> had no room
> in his life for anything other than physics.
>
> But this is an ongoing postmodern improv comedy about another
> Einstein--
I didn't read this as literally what he/they (he, his wife, his group)
would have said. I assumed it was intended to be funny. In fact, I
thought you wrote it. Comedy or not, I thought it was a good example of
what would appear to be indecipherable gibberish to someone outside a field
(any field, here, physics) but is perfectly understandable within a
discipline. I was using it to show how little patent clerk there was and
how much scientist there was, except of course, when he talked to his boss
at work. I took your comedy and turned it into wit. Or tried to.
Andy
a stoner Einstein who mooches his buddy's pot, whose
> wife comes up with his Nobel Prize winning insight into the
> mathematics of Brownian movement, and who works in a Swiss Patent
> Office that is a veritable Prospero's book full of inventions
> like aerosol cheese and time machines. It was conceived by Robert
> Paul. Standing on the shoulders of this giant, David Ritchie and
> I are but vehicles to carry forward his great notion.
>
> Doing my best NOT to think of Donald Barthelme's short story,
> "The Genius,"
>
> Eric
>
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