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Subject: An unexpected pleasure
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 15:24:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 15:24:16 1985
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      From a totally unexpected source comes a delightful new book which
among many other things discusses behavior in bars.  It's ``You Must be
Joking, Mr. Feynman'', the memoirs of Richard Feynman, the physicist.
Feynman is a keen observer and is determined to understand how the universe
works; when he looks at the problem of picking up women, he solves it.  How?
Read the book for yourself.  Just as an autobiography, it's entertaining.  
Feynman's fundamental intellectual honesty comes through very strongly.  He
writes a little about physics, but mostly about life; his first trip to a bar
(in Buffalo, NY), working at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project (he's
proud of his work on the bomb); figuring out how to crack safes (he gets quite
good at it); life at Caltech (convenient to the Sunset Strip, where the
action is), winning the Nobel Prize (awakened at 2AM), how to pick up women
(he gets training from a master), learning to paint (he does nudes for 
an L.A. massage parlor) and finally his comments on Cargo Cult Science
(if you can't repeat the experiment, it isn't science).  Definitely
a good read.

					John Nagle