Nash-ville

[khall]

So often, history seems...distant. Like...there's no 'heros' or great people or...excitement. I mean, we can't go be pirates (except on South Park), there's no knights, there's no dragons to slay, it's rare to come across someone taking hostages with a knife when you have a gun in your pocket, it makes...history seem like...stories. Like adventure

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[anais_pf]

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/john-forbes-nash-jr-dead-beautiful-mind-mathematician-was-in-crash-reports-say-1.10468533... )

[anais_pf]

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[khall]

Thank you. Very much. It helps a lot to know. *hugs* Gotta say news of his death...shook me, a bit. Not as bad as Leonard Nimoy but...more than usual for someone who to me is a cardboard cut-out, a media figure.

K.

[khall]

He also hated the depiction of him in that movie. Because it showed him eventually going back to taking his meds. Which he never did.

K.

[softngentle]

I saw the movie and it made me so sad and seemed to be vague in some areas that I bought and read the book which although mathematically beyond me gave me a greater sense of who he was and how important to the 20th and 21 centuries.

[softngentle]

I would think so, I will admit I tried to read every word but skipped over some stuff that was beyond my understanding. I still enjoyed the book and realized the movie was not accurate in that John Nash was delusional but did not have hallucinations.