Epstein Secrets

Bickford, Edmund Carpenter, Werner Heisenberg, Sir James Jeans, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wallace Stevens, Leon Brillouin, T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, Gertrude Stein, Max Born, J. Andrade e Silva, P. W. Bridgman, R. Buckminster Fuller, Sir Arthur Eddington, William Empson, C. G. Jung, Bertrand Russell, William Bu

er, Ihab Hassan, T. E. Hulme, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, David Pears, Main Robbe-Grillet, Victor Gioscia, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Norman 0. Brown, William Shakespeare, E. E. Cummings, Paul Valery, Ezra Pound, Henry Miller. These words belong to the reader. JOHN BROCKMAN EFTA_R1_02124764 EFTA02711248

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Norman 0. Brown, William Shakespeare, E. E. Cummings, Paul Valery, Ezra Pound, Henry M

accent, “you are a phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the

wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare — Macbeth For most of our species’ history, our

catalogue ye go for men, As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare — Macbeth For most of our species’ history, our ancestors were barely people. This was not due to any inadequacy in their brains. On the contrary, e

accent, “you are a phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the

wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare — Macbeth For most of our species’ history, our

catalogue ye go for men, As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. William Shakespeare — Macbeth For most of our species’ history, our ancestors were barely people. This was not due to any inadequacy in their brains. On the contrary, e

y Complementarities" in The Screens and Other Poems (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1960), p. 34. ace Where you end . . . draw a line" A A jj, Gertrude Stein, Lectures in America (Boston: Beacon Press 1935), pp. 209-10. ficeA noun is . . . write about it.fi A A n Eliot, ficeFour Quartets" op. cit., p. 126

p. 270. ficeThe god that . . the question itself a A A 26 Beckett, The Unnamable, op. cit., p. 390 aceThe thing said . . . a common source.fi A A n Shakespeare, aceA world full. . . signifying nothing" A A 28. E. E. Cummings, / (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), p. 69. in any number of . . . ficep

s, which disapprove of logical certitude on grounds not clear to me. They are wrong. A rose is a rose. Nor are all examples as inane as that one from Gertrude Stein. All of math is derived as logical certitude. Its proof comes from analysis, not experiment. Proof of Fermat’s last theorem eluded some of the finest

n the Neutral Zone in 1953. The Emir’s identical house was a few steps away. My father’s favorite maple sugar was still in the fridge. I read the few Shakespeare plays | hadn’t read in college, and read or reread the complete poems and plays of John Keats. The house arrest was probably as much dressing-down

ving if and only if Aristotle was right. Natural selection simply means the untestable but little-doubted theory of causality. Spencer or Darwin or Gertrude Stein might be faulted for insulting our intelligence by stating the obvious. That shoe would fit Gertrude Stein. But Spencer and Darwin, like the little b

rates were well within the range of modern rates and the lowest were far below modern rates in periods of credit stringency.” Merchants of Venice in Shakespeare’s time and long before borrowed from banks, not from Shylocks, and at rather lower cost than merchants of the twentieth century. Economics and Biol