Perhaps you shouldn't read the book, since the film is quite a sanitized
version of the man and his situation. There is quite a lot in the book, for
example, about his anti-Semitism and his crypto-fascism...from his own
mouth.
best,
Gerald
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From: "Douglas Clark" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:17 AM
Subject: A Beautiful Mind
> JUst back from seeing it and as a schizophrenic mathematician
> myself it was frightening. This business of writing poetry
> seems an illusion to me and I am now glad I stopped six
> months ago. It is when the film unravels it gets scary.
> And the sideeffects of the drugs they used then are quite
> accurate. Nobody could keep them going unless forcibly.
> And they still have to be used in some cases my CPN told me.
> I dont know if I will read the book.
>
>
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath ..........
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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