![]() ![]() The wind picked up the cap and carried it down the street. ![]() ![]() Along the way, hoods jumped him and knocked his cap off his head. A violinist bought a magnet and was carrying it home.I am writing to you in answer to your letter which you are about to write to me in answer to my letter which I wrote to you.Piozzi, Johnson had once recommended “‘dried orange-peel, finely powdered,’ as a medicine.”Ī thought-provoking piece of nonsense by Russian absurdist poet Daniil Kharms: I don’t think this has ever been fully explained, but Boswell notes that, in a letter to Mrs. ‘Nay, Sir, you should say it more emphatically:–he could not be prevailed upon, even by his dearest friends, to tell.’ It must be said (assuming a mock solemnity) he scraped them, and let them dry, but what he did with them next he never could be prevailed upon to tell.’ ‘Then the world must be left in the dark. ‘Nay, Sir, you shall know their fate no further.’īOSWELL. ‘And pray, Sir, what do you do with them? You scrape them it seems, very neatly, and what next?’ The friends who saw this “seemed to think that he had a strange unwillingness to be discovered.” Visiting Johnson the next morning and seeing the orange peels scraped and cut into pieces on a table, James Boswell asked about them:īOSWELL. Experiments tend to bear this out, although in some cases the sprinkler turns slightly counterclockwise, perhaps due to the formation of a vortex within the sprinkler body.ĭuring a visit to a club in 1775, Samuel Johnson was observed to put several Seville oranges into his pocket after squeezing their juice into a drink he’d made for himself. The answer, briefly, is no: The submerged sprinkler doesn’t turn counterclockwise because counterbalancing forces at the back of the nozzle result in no net torque. In fact Ernst Mach had first asked the question in an 1883 textbook. The problem is associated with Richard Feynman, who was a grad student at the time (and who destroyed a glass container in the university’s cyclotron laboratory trying to find the answer). If you reversed this - that is, if you submerged the sprinkler in a tank of water and induced the jets to suck in the fluid - would the sprinkler turn in the opposite direction? An ordinary lawn sprinkler like the one shown here would turn clockwise (in the direction of the long arrow) as its jets ejected water (short arrows). In the early 1940s a curious question began to circulate among the members of the Princeton physics department. (From Robert Hauptman, Documentation, 2008, and Harvard’s Marks in Books, 1985.) Modern critics generally disagree - most editions today use the original version. “The work on the earlier novels has involved much labour - to the best effect for the vile things, I’m convinced,” James had written to Grace Norton that March. Words are blotted out or struck in the new version, and as he approaches the bottom of the page, the lettering diminishes in size, because he realizes that he will run out of room.” “His scrawling alterations cover virtually all of the generous white space and must be inserted in at least three different locations in the original text. On the last page, above, “James has partially or fully crossed out 16 of the 19 lines and rewritten the text for the definitive New York edition in the margins and at the foot of the page,” notes Hauptman. He had decided the plot was unconvincing and asked for so many changes that two copies of the book had to be inlaid page by page on larger sheets to give him room to mark all the revisions. Literary scholar Robert Hauptman calls this “marginal emendation run amok” - it’s a page from Henry James’ 1877 novel The American as James revised it anxiously for a new edition in 1907. ![]()
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