From TomDispatch this evening: Eduardo Galeano: “Century of Disaster, Riddles, Lies, and Lives – From Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali to Albert Einstein and Barbie” Eduardo Galeano is a force of nature. There’s no way to adequately describe what he does or how he writes -- a fascinating mix of the best of journalism, history, and fiction (stylistically speaking). Here is one of the briefer episodes in today’s post from his book Mirrors to give you a feel for “Century of Disaster”: Photograph: Saddest Eye in the World Princeton, New Jersey, May 1947. Photographer Philippe Halsman asks him: “Do you think there will be peace?” And while the shutter clicks, Albert Einstein says, or rather mutters: “No.” People believe that Einstein got the Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity, that he was the originator of the saying “Everything is relative,” and that he was the inventor of the atom bomb. The truth is they did not give him a Nobel for his theory of relativity and he never uttered those words. Neither did he invent the bomb, although Hiroshima and Nagasaki would not have been possible if he had not discovered what he did. He knew all too well that his findings, born of a celebration of life, had been used to annihilate it.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 17:00:01 +0000
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