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Originally Posted by HarryT
The title is "Cosmos". I thought it was a typo when you wrote it the first time, but not the second  . |
Probably thinking of Cosmo Kramer! That OTHER great thinker of the 20th century.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sadly - and I don't know if it's the same in the US - many people in Britain would proudly boast how little of "A Brief History of Time" they'd managed to get through, as though stupidity were a badge of honour  . |
Most people in the USA never really talked about it, I don't think. I suspect most of us who read it, figured no one else was interested.
Maybe we were selling our friends and family short. As I age, I have begun to learn that old people aren't nearly as shallow and stupid as I thought, nor are young people nearly as brilliant as I once thought!