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Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

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Re: Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

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This style of writing is becoming more common and it is frustrating. The author seems hell bent on making their words the focus rather than a window through which you view a story.

Hem-hem.

Allow me to pontificate for your edification, as to why wanton use of esoteric terminology is in fact a paragon of lexical mastery and thus ideal for the optimization of literary accuracy...

/s

Re: Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

#12

Such a sweet read, thank you. It's strange how the story would be so different if just a few more years had passed since the work on the compounds from fungi and bacteria had begun. Feynman's hope was totally on the right track. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Crude-death-rates-for-tu... I also found this interesting from the wiki for TB since it is thought Arline got TB from unpasteurized milk- "Robert Koch iden…

in fact we got the FDA and milk, food inspections via Upton Sinclair's expose on working in the Chicago stock yards and passing tb via untreated milk was one the things highlighted

Re: Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

#13

This style of writing is becoming more common and it is frustrating. The author seems hell bent on making their words the focus rather than a window through which you view a story.

I enjoy Farnam Street Blog, in part because the author does such a good job of stepping out of the way for his subject. Here's the FSblog post on the same Feynman letter:

https://fs.blog/2013/08/richard-feynmans-love-letter-to-his-...

Re: Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

#14

This style of writing is becoming more common and it is frustrating. The author seems hell bent on making their words the focus rather than a window through which you view a story.

> She walked down her father’s hand-poured concrete driveway wearing a white dress.

What is the relevance to the story of how the driveway was made? None. There is no relevance. Just masturbation by the author.

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