![]() I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive. 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 you to stand there. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. ![]() When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures. We started to learn to make clothes together - or learn Chinese - or getting a movie projector. I never thought until just now that we can do that. I want to have problems to discuss with you - I want to do little projects with 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. 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.īut now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. I know how much you like to hear that - but I don’t only write it because you like it - I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you. Reproduced with permission of Richard Feynman’s Estate.) The Letter (This letter, along with 124 other fascinating pieces of correspondence, can be found in the bestselling book, Letters of Note. It remained unopened until after his death in 1988. ![]() 16 months later, in October of 1946, Richard wrote his late wife a heartbreaking love letter and sealed it in an envelope. In June of 1945, his wife and high-school sweetheart, Arline, passed away after succumbing to tuberculosis. In the 1940s, he played a part in the development of the atomic bomb in 1986, as a key member of the Rogers Commission, he investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and identified its cause in 1965, he and two colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.” He was also an incredibly likeable character, and made countless other advances in his field, the complexities of which I will never be able understand. ![]() Writer(s): William BaronLyrics powered by Feynman was one of the best-known and most influential physicists of his generation. Since she′s been gone I've been alone My heart′s as cold and hard as stone Is there a chance that she'll come back Maybe come slipping through the cracks Into my arms here once again I promise I will never sin This time I'll make sure it′s alright She′s in the dark but she's the light I have so much to regret (I′ve been so immature) My love wasn't done yet (What am I looking for) It comes as no surprise (What lies inside my head) I just want to see her eyes (But now my darling′s dead) My world has turned all inside out Please tell me what this is about The wind blows but I do not feel This is so tragic and unreal How did the reaper get it's way I loved her each and every day Or was it something I did wrong I am the notes and she′s the song My heartbreak never ends (This is my final word) She was my only friend (A nightmare has occurred) The wind blows through my skin (It's getting dark outside) The night is coming in (Alas my darling died) What will become of me this day I wish that I could get my way We used to love all through the night I'd do anything to hold her tight I can′t go on I think I′m doomed To be weighed down with all the gloom I sit so quiet and profound I'm at the grave she′s in the ground I have nothing but pain (Pain I cannot endure) I'm ′bout to go insane (A nightmare has occurred) This madness never ends (A tear has just been shed) She was my only friend (But now my darling's dead) I have so much to regret (I′ve been so immature) My love wasn't done yet (What am I looking for) It comes as no surprise (What lies inside my head) I just want to see her eyes (But now my darling's dead) Yeah Yeah Yeah
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