Good morning,

Halloween might be well behind us, but as I am going to watch scary movies tonight, I think we are still within range. The subject line is a real “does what is says on the tin” one today.

Are you aware of Maria Goeppert Mayer? She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics! She loved her subject and she looked great in a bat costume.

Shortly before she had met Joseph Edward Mayer, an American Rockefeller fellow working with James Franck. In 1930 she went with him to the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. This was the time of the depression, and no university would think of employing the wife of a professor. But she kept working, just for the fun of doing physics.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/mayer-bio.html

I know that you are aware of Susan Sontag, and long time subscribers will be aware of Susan Sontag in a bear suit. Are you okay if from now on every fem Friday Halloween is celebrated with this image? As it is credited to Annie Leibowitz it is an undisputed classic. Enjoy, also, this article on Susan Sontag and literature:

Returning to the writer’s crucial task of selecting what story to tell from among all the stories that could be told, Sontag points to literature’s essential allure — the comfort of appeasing our anxiety about life’s infinite possibility, about all the roads not taken and all the immensities not imagined that could have led to a better destination than our present one.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/30/susan-sontag-writing-storytelling-at-the-same-time/

If you want to dress up as a critter today, you certainly should.

Alex.