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Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)

196 点作者 ncarroll超过 1 年前

8 条评论

DigiDigiorno超过 1 年前
Small story about the time I read the collection Feynman&#x27;s letters (I think it&#x27;s a book called Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track)<p>The beginning of the book contained a lot of cute letters between him and his wife Arline. I was curious how much of the book would be this, considering I know she died of TB, so I flipped ahead and saw a letter to her quite a few more pages in, so I figured she must survive until at least that point. I continued reading and was emotionally caught off guard when she died only a couple of pages later. I&#x27;m not sure why I was so distraught at the death of someone I did not know who died 80 years ago, but I was looking forward to, and had the expectation of, a few more cute letters between them.<p>When I got to the letter that I had originally flipped to, it was the one he was writing after her death as a form of therapy to himself.<p>FWIW, they had a very cute relationship and the letters are worth reading for that alone.
Gabriel54超过 1 年前
Very touching story.<p>&gt; PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don’t know your new address.<p>Not out of character for how I always imagined his personality.
functoid超过 1 年前
&gt; Marriage, however, proved to be a towering practical problem — Princeton, where Feynman was now pursuing a Ph.D., threatened to withdraw the fellowships funding his graduate studies if he were to wed, for the university considered the emotional and pragmatic responsibilities of marriage a grave threat to academic discipline.<p>You have got to be kidding me. And I thought academia was bad in the 21st century.
dang超过 1 年前
Related. Others?<p><i>Love After Life: Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife (2017)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24204678">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24204678</a> - Aug 2020 (1 comment)<p><i>Richard Feynman&#x27;s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19280764">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19280764</a> - March 2019 (12 comments)<p><i>Feynman&#x27;s Letter to His Wife</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10375283">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10375283</a> - Oct 2015 (60 comments)<p><i>Richard Feynman’s Love Letter to His Wife Sixteen Months After Her Death</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7893757">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7893757</a> - June 2014 (1 comment)
growingkittens超过 1 年前
Losing his first wife was a tragedy that seems to have led Feynman down a dark personal path. Everybody likes the funny second wife divorce story - &quot;because he did calculus all the time!&quot;<p>His second wife testified in court that he flew into a rage and choked her if she unwittingly interrupted his calculus. [1] She was granted a divorce due to his &quot;extreme cruelty.&quot;<p>[1] p. 64-65 of FBI file - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.muckrock.com&#x2F;foi&#x2F;united-states-of-america-10&#x2F;fbi-files-on-richard-feynman-1165&#x2F;#file-4617" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.muckrock.com&#x2F;foi&#x2F;united-states-of-america-10&#x2F;fbi...</a>
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peter_retief超过 1 年前
Such a sad and brave story, makes me count my blessings.
shmde超过 1 年前
Didnt he cheat on wife with his PhD students, had numerous flings and flirted with other peoples wives ?
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kkwteh超过 1 年前
I never knew how to square this with stories about Feynman’s sexual predation. Were these two distinct phases of his life?
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