LiveCatDeadCat

What’s it all about, Lair-REE? Is it about receiving with simplicity all that happens to us? Or are Joel and Ethan Coen just messing with our minds (again) when they use that quote from Rashi as an epigraph at the beginning of A Serious Man, a movie that focuses on the troubles of Professor Lawrence “Larry” Gopnik, physicist and Jew? Larry seems to "receive with simplicity" and gets emotionally backhanded in a slapstick fashion every time. Key word: slapstick. Key word for this blog: phyziks.

02 July 2011

NYRB

The current issue of the New York Review of Books, dated July 14, is a good one. Freeman Dyson's review of two books about Richard Feynman is enjoyable, thought provoking and, in one part, funny. Deborah Eisenberg's short story is quite amazing. I think some friends of mine in Austin in particular would like this issue of the venerable NYRB.