One thing I found weird in Surely You're Joking is that in every story he has a different wife. And they're all just names, like "And then I took my wife Mary to the Zoo" but in the next story it's all "And then my wife Alice was happy that we were in Brazil".
And I found it kind of weird and a little sad that none of his wives merited any sort of explication or caring or anything at all. But in one of his other books there's this long, long story about his relationship with his first wife, who he was married to while he was at Los Alamos, and who had tuberculosis and who he sent coded letters to in order to escape the censors and who died young =(
I don't know, in my mind the character of Richard Feynman is partially explained by the tragic loss of his first love...of course, maybe if she'd lived he probably would have just cheated on and then divorced her like he did with the later three wives.
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And I found it kind of weird and a little sad that none of his wives merited any sort of explication or caring or anything at all. But in one of his other books there's this long, long story about his relationship with his first wife, who he was married to while he was at Los Alamos, and who had tuberculosis and who he sent coded letters to in order to escape the censors and who died young =(
I don't know, in my mind the character of Richard Feynman is partially explained by the tragic loss of his first love...of course, maybe if she'd lived he probably would have just cheated on and then divorced her like he did with the later three wives.