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Does Nietzsche's note plumb philosophical depths?

^^ stumbled upon a copy-paste 2 reviews from amazon.com Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature Hardcover – Illustrated, November 7, 2017 by Marion Rankine (Author) Jon Lieber 4.0 out of 5 stars fun, but wow, so many typos Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023 The book is fun & interesting. But I'm astounded by the typos, especially the mangled hyphens - I've never encountered a book with so many typos. What happened?? Pauline Wiles 3.0 out of 5 stars Too highbrow for me Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020 Aside from the nasty printing / typesetting errors with mangled hyphens, the content and writing were both too earnest for me. I had hoped for a lighthearted read: this is more scholarly, and unnecessarily sprinkled with tough vocabulary. But I enjoyed the plentiful illustrations, and will pay more attention to brollies in my future reading.

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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or to describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn’t any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.(…)So, what I would like to tell you about today are the sequence of events, really the sequence of ideas, which occurred, and by which I finally came out the other end with an unsolved problem(…) As a by-product of this same view, I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, “Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass” “Why?” “Because, they are all the same electron!” And, then he explained on the telephone, “suppose that the world lines which we were ordinarily considering before in time and space – instead of only going up in time were a tremendous knot, and then, when we cut through the knot, by the plane corresponding to a fixed time, we would see many, many world lines and that would represent many electrons, except for one thing. If in one section this is an ordinary electron world line, in the section in which it reversed itself and is coming back from the future we have the wrong sign to the proper time – to the proper four velocities – and that’s equivalent to changing the sign of the charge, and, therefore, that part of a path would act like a positron.” “But, Professor”, I said, “there aren’t as many positrons as electrons.” “Well, maybe they are hidden in the protons or something”, he said. I did not take the idea that all the electrons were the same one from him as seriously as I took the observation that positrons could simply be represented as electrons going from the future to the past in a back section of their world lines. That, I stole! (…)Perhaps a thing is simple if you can describe it fully in several different ways without immediately knowing that you are describing the same thing. -Feynman https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/feynman/lecture/

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One, None and a Hundred-Thousand by Luigi Pirandello (1926, Uno, nessuno e centomila) #bookstr I don't know which translation is good. (...)2017 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the "...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life….”(...)

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