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Originally Posted by kennyc
Just read another chapter of Sagan's "The Varieties of Scientific Experience" during my lunch walk and man I must say that guy does go on, and on, an on....
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Another great book, although certainly not as Carl Sagan would have submitted for publication had he lived. The book is composed entirely of talks he gave live and often extemporaneously. In the Preface, his widow Ann Druyan said that before he sent a book to the publisher he always proof-read it several times and was constantly making changes.
It's remarkable that he could effortlessly speak off-the-cuff in structured sentences better that most people can write.