Whoa!! I knew you were writing a response, Ehud, but I wasn't expecting this! ... Thanks for an extraordinarily thoughtful post, and for not completely skewering me. I might even say that your conclusion was downright generous. It's almost as if our exchanges here might be opening some new doors (?). ...
Whoa!! I knew you were writing a response, Ehud, but I wasn't expecting this! ... Thanks for an extraordinarily thoughtful post, and for not completely skewering me. I might even say that your conclusion was downright generous. It's almost as if our exchanges here might be opening some new doors (?). ...
I need some time to process all this. And to read more about Simon Rawidowicz.
P.S. I'm from Lexington, not Newton. A lesser man might say: "If Ehud can't get the basics right, how can we trust anything else he writes??" Good thing I'm not a lesser man. :-)
Whoa!! I knew you were writing a response, Ehud, but I wasn't expecting this! ... Thanks for an extraordinarily thoughtful post, and for not completely skewering me. I might even say that your conclusion was downright generous. It's almost as if our exchanges here might be opening some new doors (?). ...
I need some time to process all this. And to read more about Simon Rawidowicz.
P.S. I'm from Lexington, not Newton. A lesser man might say: "If Ehud can't get the basics right, how can we trust anything else he writes??" Good thing I'm not a lesser man. :-)
More to come...
Still close to Waltham. Anyway, it's a psycho-slip: my father grew up in Newton.
Your psycho-slip was surprising close to the mark: My parents moved to Lexington one month before I was born. They moved from... Newton.
Crazy. Just crazy.