The darkness and those long days

[sovay]

I aten't dead, but I have spent this weekend in too much pain to do anything including sleep. As a sort of unwelcome garnish, I came down with what a visit to urgent care determined to be unspecified viral crud and have been running a fever for the last three nights. I miss my brain. I haven't even been able to watch movies, which I had been looking forward to doing.

I can't remember if I ever noticed before that this passage in Le Guin's "April in Paris" (1962)—

It was a fine face, though pale and lean: intelligent, alert, vivid. Barry was reminded of the face of a famous atomic physicist, seen in newspaper pictures up until 1953.

—is an Oppenheimer reference: a face the author had seen not just in newspapers, but as a visitor to the house when she was a child. At this point where I am with Nolan's movie is just hoping it doesn't suck.

Comments

[ethelmay]

The first thing I thought of was Klaus Barbie, and I was very relieved to see it was the doll who was getting a movie.

That sounds like a very rotten week and I shall have words with the week manager.

I was wondering why 1953 (Oppenheimer didn't die until 1967), and then realized in 1954 he lost his security clearance, so presumably appeared less often, if at all, in the newspapers. He did have quite a face.

[sovay]

That sounds like a very rotten week and I shall have words with the week manager.

I really appreciate it.

I was wondering why 1953 (Oppenheimer didn't die until 1967), and then realized in 1954 he lost his security clearance, so presumably appeared less often, if at all, in the newspapers. He did have quite a face.

The suspension of his security clearance was what finally clicked it for me!