The Alchemy of Air

Author:Thomas Hager
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307449993
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2008-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

What Fritz has achieved in these eight years, I have lost—and even more. And what’s left fills me with the deepest dissatisfaction. . . . [E]ven if external circumstances and my own particular temperament are partly to blame for this loss, what’s mainly responsible, without a doubt, is Fritz’s overwhelming assertion of his own place in the household and in the marriage. It simply destroys any personality that’s incapable of asserting itself against him even more ruthlessly. And that’s the case with me. And I ask myself if superior intelligence is enough to make one person more valuable than another, and whether aspects of myself that are going to hell because they haven’t met the right man aren’t moreimportant than the most significant elements of electron theory. . . . Everybody has a right to live their own life, but to nurture one’s “quirks” while exhibiting a supreme contempt for everyone else and the most common routines of life—I think that even a genius shouldn’t be permitted such behavior, except on a desolate island.

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