March 2012
5 posts
Letters of Note: I love my wife. My wife is dead. →
In June of 1945, Arline Feynman — high-school sweetheart and wife of the hugely influential physicist, Richard Feynman — passed away after succumbing to tuberculosis. She was 25-years-old. 16 months later, in October of 1946, Richard wrote his late wife the following love letter and sealed it in an envelope. It remained unopened until after his death in 1988. (Source: Genius: The Life and Science...
“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an...”
– Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky. (via shadowsandfog)
“The following day, I attended a workshop about preventing gender violence,...”
– Why I Am A Male Feminist (via newwavefeminism)
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