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John Casey on the Farm Hall Transcripts. To the Editor:
The only detail in your description (in your last “Endnotes,” Vol.
6, No. 1) of how the Farm
Hall transcripts came to me that might need clarification is that the
other guy moving furniture was Jonathan Logan. I hadn’t heard anything
about the controversy over whether Heisenberg was a moral hero or
whether the German effort to build an atomic bomb wasn’t up to the job.
Logan wanted to see if a lay reader could make anything of the
transcripts. It was pretty clear to me that the German scientists were
smart enough, but that the communication and trust between the Nazis and
the scientists wasn’t good enough to develop an enterprise as vast as
the American Manhattan Project.
In any case I’m glad the subject came up between you and me and that
you published enough of the transcripts to give your readers a sense of
the German scientists’ conversation.
As ever,
John Casey
Bryan Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Va 22903
The novelist John Casey (SPARTINA; THE HALF-LIFE OF
HAPPINESS) is a Contributing Editor of Archipelago.
A reader exits...
To the Editor:
I feel some disappointment in reading this magazine. It is very arch,
but not much in the way of originality or even of world. It is filled
with pretentious European junk writings, often vulgar and silly. Sorry.
Mary Kay Baker
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