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u/L_and_L · 434 pointsr/reddit.com

The saddest such letter I have read is Richard Feyman's letter to his late wife two years after her death (published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track):

>Arline Feynman died on June 16, 1945. The paper on which this letter was written is well worn, and it appears as though he reread it often.

>To Arline Feynman, October 17, 1946

>D'Arline,

>I adore you, sweetheart ... It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you'll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic; and I thought there was no sense to writing. But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and what I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you.

>I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector.

>Can't I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the "idea-woman" and general instigator of all our wild adventures. When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn't have worried.

>Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want to stand there.

>I'll bet that you are surprised that I don't even have a girlfriend after two years. But you can't help it, darling, nor can I — I don't understand it, for I have met many girls ... and I don't want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.

>My darling wife, I do adore you. I love my wife. My wife is dead,

>Rich.

>PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don't know your new address.

u/[deleted] · 17 pointsr/reddit.com

This was taken from a comment from when this was first submitted:

>The saddest such letter I have read is Richard Feyman's letter to his late wife two years after her death (published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track):
Arline Feynman died on June 16, 1945. The paper on which this letter was written is well worn, and it appears as though he reread it often.

>>To Arline Feynman, October 17, 1946

>>D'Arline,

>>I adore you, sweetheart ... It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you'll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic; and I thought there was no sense to writing. But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and what I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you.

>>I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector.

>>Can't I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the "idea-woman" and general instigator of all our wild adventures. When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn't have worried.

>>Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want to stand there.

>>I'll bet that you are surprised that I don't even have a girlfriend after two years. But you can't help it, darling, nor can I — I don't understand it, for I have met many girls ... and I don't want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.

>>My darling wife, I do adore you. I love my wife. My wife is dead,

>>Rich.

>>PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don't know your new address.

u/spinaltap526 · 5 pointsr/science

I recently read Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, and it's a great companion to Surely You're Joking. It's a collection of letters written to and by RPF. Thoroughly entertaining, and I think you learn so much about a person from their correspondence with friends, family, colleagues and fans.

u/omgdonerkebab · 2 pointsr/CFBOffTopic

> Surely you're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Mr. Feynman

A great book. Many aspiring physicists have read that book and imagined themselves to become a fraction of the character that Feynman was.

If you ever become super fascinated with Feynman, this book and its sequel are very good, but nothing cuts to the real picture of who he was like this collection of his letters over the span of 40 years. It was put together by his daughter.