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Finding Peter Putnam

9 comments

  1. [3]
    Nemoder
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    I came across this cool video (also by Amanada Gefter) that covers a lot of the same material but also goes into a bit more technical detail of what he worked on:...

    I came across this cool video (also by Amanada Gefter) that covers a lot of the same material but also goes into a bit more technical detail of what he worked on:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QibFKePo_E4

    7 votes
    1. fnulare
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      Thank you, what a great find! (Also the channel seems well interesting too)

      Thank you, what a great find!

      (Also the channel seems well interesting too)

      2 votes
    2. cutmetal
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      Wow, thanks for the share! I can't get enough of this story - really wish Amanda Gefter would expand the article into a full book.

      Wow, thanks for the share!

      I can't get enough of this story - really wish Amanda Gefter would expand the article into a full book.

      1 vote
  2. [2]
    fnulare
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    I found this article over at hn and found it so beautiful that I wanted to share it here. It portrays the life of a mostly unrecognised scientist, art lover, civil rights activist and son in a...

    I found this article over at hn and found it so beautiful that I wanted to share it here.

    It portrays the life of a mostly unrecognised scientist, art lover, civil rights activist and son in a fantastic way.

    There are several interesting places to jump off from to have great red wine assisted conversations that last well into the next day.

    4 votes
    1. cutmetal
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      Thanks for posting it here! I too came across it on HN, just finished it today, and was going to post to Tildes. What a poignant story.

      Thanks for posting it here! I too came across it on HN, just finished it today, and was going to post to Tildes. What a poignant story.

  3. Nemoder
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    I don't usually have the focus to read longer articles like this but this was so well written I couldn't stop, thanks for sharing!

    I don't usually have the focus to read longer articles like this but this was so well written I couldn't stop, thanks for sharing!

    3 votes
  4. [2]
    aeolitus
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    What a wonderful article, thank you for sharing. Incredible, to have your... complicated relationship with your mother interfere so much with your life and yet still to love her so much to find so...

    What a wonderful article, thank you for sharing. Incredible, to have your... complicated relationship with your mother interfere so much with your life and yet still to love her so much to find so much deep understanding for her in your heart and invite her into your home for her last living years. What a fascinating individual.

    2 votes
    1. fnulare
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      I can really relate to the relationship with the mother. In my case I moved in with my mother, and followed her to stay in a small room in a hospital for 3 months until she died. It was not love,...

      I can really relate to the relationship with the mother.

      In my case I moved in with my mother, and followed her to stay in a small room in a hospital for 3 months until she died. It was not love, just the right thing to do.

      Just saying, we don't know why he did that, but his pathos in the world could also make him (and Claude) invite her to their home because it's the right thing to do.

      (No other similarities between us!)

      2 votes
  5. slashtab
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    What a brilliant, tragic and inspiring life. I guess now all of her readers share this weight.

    What a brilliant, tragic and inspiring life.

    I’d spent more than a decade hunched over inscrutable pages under the weight of so much regret about how Putnam’s story had ended. 

    I guess now all of her readers share this weight.

    1 vote