Can Messy Be A Sign Of Brilliance?
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind,
then what are we to think of an empty desk?"
---Einsteinthen what are we to think of an empty desk?"
The photograph above is from Einstein's office in Princeton from Life magazine (via PicDit) in 1955.
From Einstein we move to Agatha Christie, where Slate has fun romping through her writing "habits", gleaned from author John Curran's discoveries taken from his new book, "Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks". Excerpts From Slate:
"She was clever, learned, and unflinching when it came to plunging a paper knife into a man's back or poisoning an old lady with strychnine. Agatha Christie, the author of more than 60 crime novels, six straight novels, more than 140 short stories, 22 plays, and uncounted poems, wrote with matchless poise about death, greed, and, on occasion, truly nasty, motiveless evil. About 20 years ago, I read all of Christie's crime novels. Today, I would kill for the chance once more to stumble on one of her bodies . . . ."" . . . You could never guess the murderers until she unveiled them, and then you had that fantastic sensation of surprise and - at the same time - utter inevitability. Ah! . . .This perfect dissonance - for which there is probably
