Word: journeys
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...Berlin. This is where Kehlmann begins the life stories of the two eminent German scientists, but what happens after that is as much comedy as biography. Kehlmann writes the men as comically eccentric, sometimes tyrannical and, yet, not wholly unlikable. While Humboldt travels the world, Gauss prefers to journey into the depths of mathematics. Gauss loves women and Humboldt is curiously asexual. But the two contemporaries are united by their fanatical quest to explore the secrets of the universe. Gauss even abandons his new bride at a climactic moment on their wedding night when he has a sudden idea. Kehlmann...
SAVANE OPENS WITH A FEW NOTES on a single-stringed African violin. Then Touré comes in with a guitar riff worthy of onetime boss John Lee Hooker, and Pee Wee Ellis, James Brown's ex-saxophonist, blows on through. And there you have it: the journey of the blues from West Africa to the Apollo in just a few seconds. It's rare that world music actually contains multitudes, but Touré, a hero in his native Mali, picks the pocket of any culture with something to offer. There's a stew that makes you optimistic about the future, even...
Stern says the egalitarian nature of the process has been exciting. “The cast has been incredible as collaborators on this journey,” he says...
...scientists study all they want how to reset the dials, expand the horizon. But the length won't change the final mystery of the journey, or the knowledge that for all of us, the time may come when we have finished the course, and are ready. Rest in peace, Lizzie...
...think that her personal story and personal journey and transformation speak more powerfully than something like reading an academic journal would,” Rohr said...