Footnote Physicist

        “My parents died years ago.  I was very close to them.  I still miss them terribly.  I know I         always will.  I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about           them, are – really and truly – still in existence somewhere... I know how much I want to believe           that my parents have just abandoned the husks of their bodies, like insects or snakes molting,           and gone somewhere else.  I understand that those very feelings might make me easy prey even           for an unclever con, or for normal people unfamiliar with their unconscious minds, or for those           suffering from dissociative psychiatric disorder.  Reluctantly, I rouse some reserves of      ...