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I was agreeably surprised on Thursday to receive a large envelope stamped Princeton, February 11, 1943, and inside it, lo and behold, “The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis, by K. Gödel.” This is the first time I have ever been aware, except from an abstract point of view, that a place called America really exists. I have often read about America, but it is quite different when you ask somebody in America to send something to you, and they send it. I have been reading the immortal work (it is only sixty pages long) alternately with The Magic Mountain and find it hard to say which is the better. [Thomas] Mann of course writes better English (or rather the translator does); on the other hand the superiority of the ideas in Gödel just about makes up for that.
I was agreeably surprised on Thursday to receive a large envelope stamped Princeton, February 11, 1943, and inside it, lo and behold, “The Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis, by K. Gödel.” This is the first time I have ever been aware, except from an abstract point of view, that a place called America really exists. I have often read about America, but it is quite different when you ask somebody in America to send something to you, and they send it. I have been reading the immortal work (it is only sixty pages long) alternately with The Magic Mountain and find it hard to say which is the better. [Thomas] Mann of course writes better English (or rather the translator does); on the other hand the superiority of the ideas in Gödel just about makes up for that.