What a strange, weird, story, and better yet, it's true! When Albert Einstein died, a pathologist Thomas Harvey performed the autopsy and preserved the brain and later took it and kept it. This book chronicles a road trip with Harvey and a journalist across the U.S. to return the brain to an Einstein family member. A truly quirky read.
Some quotes:
"Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannon aimed out...Only in our solitary hungers to we find ourselves capable of the most magnificently unexpected sins."
"Is it that genius is really nothing more than a matter of seeing as simply as possible, that somewhere in this world the image already exists waiting for the cameras, or the profound idea already exists waiting for the mind to happen on it?"
Published: 2000 Read: September 2018 Genre: Memoir
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