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An Exercise in Point-of-View
I’m working on a scene where it’s hard to understand Einstein’s behavior. It’s mid-July, 1901, and Mileva is about to re-sit her exams at the Polytech, having failed them the summer before. It’s her last chance to pass, and, oh-my-god, … Continue reading
German Jewish Family Values
Additional research–my thanks to Marion Kaplan for her book The Making of the Jewish Middle Class–reveals that as laws in Germany allowed Jews freedom to join the professions and become upwardly mobile, the German ideals of cleanliness entered the Jewish … Continue reading
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Serbia! (It Isn’t England)
One of my challenges with this book, in addition to getting a sense of all the physics, is that I have not yet visited the countries important to the principal persons in the text. Generating scene tends to be very … Continue reading
Posted in Asne Seierstad, Mileva Maric, reading, Serbia
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Serbia! (It Isn’t England)
One of my challenges with this book, in addition to getting a sense of all the physics, is that I have not yet visited the countries important to the principal persons in the text. Generating scene tends to be very … Continue reading
Posted in Asne Seierstad, Mileva Maric, reading, Serbia
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