"Michael Gray" <fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:45:46 -0000, "Les Hemmings"
<les.frontalclaire@lobesvirgin.net> wrote:

A splendid xmas crop of reading material. "A Devil's Chaplain" & "The
Blind
Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins, "Deep Simplicity" by John Gribbin & "Don't
You Have Time to Think" a collection of letters to and from Richard
Feynman.... Add to that a huge lump of organic, locally reared beef. A
stack of cold beer and a week off work to read them.

Bloody Luxury! :o)

Hope everyone else is just as comfy...

Les

Lemme know what you think of the Feynman letters, please...
Oh, and the beer.

Beer cold, plentiful and reasonably priced (ó.65 for 6 half litres).
Bergadler Premium Pils with just about the best list of ingredients I've
seen.... Water, Barley Malt & Hops.. nice and simple. Perfect!

The Feynman book is brilliant! I've been hoovering up everything I can get
my hands on of his. The letters show another side of him, well.. sides would
be more accurate. The letters between him and his first wife are very
personal and touching. Others show a very erudite man. He may have spoken in
a Far Rockaway accent but he writing his much more descriptive and holds
together better than his lectures ;o)
Only a few chapters in, but if your interested in him..... this husband,
lover, physicist, joker, fool, hero, trickster and all round decent human
being you should read it. If any rationalist thinker needed a role model,
you can't go wrong with Richard Feynman..... I just wish I could have seen
a few of his lectures. They say as the students were left behind, gave up
and walked out, the members of the faculty snuck in to take their seats.
Aware that something was happening in front of them too valuable to miss....

Les