¶ Philosophy
Index Entry
"I don’t want any credit for having such wisdom as the ancient philosophers. I was just lucky enough to have been so busy as a mechanic, never to have learned about them.
"When I entered Harvard I had all A’s in mathematics and I took some more advanced math, and so I was able to catch on to the whole idea of geometric proofs. But I had the good luck to be insulated from all philosophy and such formal knowledge. They didn’t tell you anything about Plato at Milton Academy. The nearest we got was the Platonic solids in solid geometry.
“I knew Shakespeare, and the Fairie Queen, and Thackeray, and all about the kings in history: who beheaded who and who put someone in a tower. I had the battle stuff okay. …And (@reek) all I knew about the Greeks was what my mother had taught me about the Spartan boy who brought the fox in to eat all his guts.”
Incorporated in COSMIC FISHING; MS p. 11 - 2.
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC: 11 Aug’76
