Einstein and Marilyn
I feel compelled to write an entry about Einstein because I have this groovy image of him. From what I understand he was a smart cookie. That whole energy mass equivalence thing. The gravitation theory. I know just enough about all this to say that it hurts my head to think about it. That is to say, nothing.
I really respect his hair style though. In the 50’s it was quite daring, sartorially speaking. Also his not wearing a hat in the rain to protect the hat, speaks of a certain post depression era frugality. His use of paychecks as bookmarks shows a Socratic disdain for the pursuit of money.
The FBI created a huge file on Einstein, you can view it at http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/einstein.htm. The first one starts with a letter from “The Woman Patriot Corporation” which morphed out of an ANTI-suffragette woman’s group. Yes, that’s right, conservative women who thought that woman should NOT have the vote. I imagine they’re contemporaries vote Republican these days and drone on about gay marriage and other issues that most people could care less about.
Its stuff like these FBI files that makes me think that I am living in a Kafka novel. The comments by the people employed by the FBI make me despair at the possibility of such dim bulbs ever solving an actual crime. “The Ambassador has the honor to report a rumor circulating among Jewish circles in Moscow regarding an alleged invitation from Professor Kanitsa to Professor Einstein to immigrate to the Soviet Union and Professor Einstein’s reply which, however, was said to have been addressed to Stalin.” Yawn, and its marked “CONFIDENTIAL”. You don’t want rumors from the Jewish community in Moscow getting out I guess. Letter’s trying to keep him out of the USA, letters trying to stop him from leaving, make up your minds people.
Actually these files are quite interesting. Check out the long list of famous people that the FBI has spent millions investigating. The stuff on Marilyn Monroe is hilarious, they basically had people reading that era’s version of People Magazine and looking for articles about Monroe, which they summarize and stamp CONFIDENTIAL. Do you think its the information that wanted to keep a secret, or the fact that they were paying people read “Confidential” magazine all day?
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