What interests me about the Kipling quote is that he seems to have managed to convince himself that all this was something Einstein-the-German-Jew just made up to get everybody else too distracted to realize how evil Germans are. That's...pretty special thinking, man. I mean, I don't really like the idea of relativity either, but it'd never occur to me to simply disbelieve it because someone whose double ethnicity I mistrust was the one who put it all in perspective.

Also, re (the thing is so inevitable that it makes one laugh)...seriously? Inevitable? "Oh, I just knew some German/Jew would come up with a set of scientific precepts undermining visible reality one of these days--didn't you, old bean?" Geez, Rudyard.

Otherwise: I think you'd like Dinesen, actually. Those Drowning Girl stills are gorgeous. And I'm sorry about the migraine.