I am writing this in an apple store.
Jun 13, 2007
When it was published I believe that Alan Lightman's (good name for a physicist, no?) Einstein's Dreams drew praise, though I thought it was more than a bit overdone—gauzy little prop-plane flights of fancy on the model of Invisible Cities, itself a book that would be more than doubly improved by being half as long—in fact I don't think I bothered to finish it. I do, however, think it would be interesting to have sketches like those in the book inspired by Peter Lorre's line from spy parody Beat the Devil:
Time! Time! What is time? The Swiss manufacture it. The French hoard it. Italians want it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.
Comments
on 2007-06-14 8:38:17.0, ogged commented:
Put me in mind of this.
and, further, on 2007-06-14 10:45:45.0, ben wolfson commented:
Time, young ogged, is an artist which occasionally shows up with a Mauser and points out where we should be heading.