How the Universe looks from here for Tuesday, January 18, 2005

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

There was a man in Cleveland...

He was an older man with some kind of European acent, German, maybe; he was a retired painter, or so I heard, who had lived a long and worldly life. Then, the story went, he got God. When I was there, in college, he was a Regular around the Lagoon that reflects the Cleveland Art Museum, and its busted bronze of Rodin's Thinker--one of the original eight or so that the sculptor made (which some lack-wit revolutionary stuffed with dynamite one night in 1970. I, a freshman living a mile or so away... Sign in to see full entry.

"I. O."

Many long years ago, when I was a freshman at Western Reserve U in Cleveland, I had a friend in the neighboring school, Case Institute of Technology. I took classes in Classics, and Anthropology, and French and stuff. He took hard-core Physics... He taught me this. On any test in Physics or Math, just as in grade school and high school, students were required to show on paper how they had arrived at the solution to their problem. But there were some basics that they did not have to prove on... Sign in to see full entry.

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