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Some of the essays in this book are quite interesting; for example, an essay about the possibility of multiple universes, and another about the direction of time. But the vast majority of the essays are boring. They just seem--irrelevant. Perhaps they would be interesting to someone who lived 50 or 100 years ago. Not just one, but two essays about a little-known novel, The Green Archer. An essay about Ernest Hemingway (my least favorite American author) and his lover, Jane Kendall. An entire section of essays about bad, disreputable psychics. A section of essays about forgotten, false messiahs. I used to love reading Martin Gardner's essays in Scientific American. I guess these are his essays that didn't quite make it.
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