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This reminded me of Richard Feynman and his first wife driving military censors bonkers by sending each other puzzles.
by orthoxerox 6y ago
This reminded me of Richard Feynman and his first wife driving military censors bonkers by sending each other puzzles.
- gregsadetsky 6y agoThat's an incredibly kind comparison. Thank you! Do you have a reference where Feynman talks about this? I'm finding this [0]: "Arline entered the nearby Albuquerque sanatorium, from where she wrote him letters in code — for the sheer fun of it, because she knew how he cherished puzzles, but the correspondence alarmed the military censors at the laboratory’s Intelligence Office. Tasked with abating any breaches to the secrecy of the operation, they cautioned Feynman that coded messages were against the rules and demanded that his wife include a key in each letter to help them decipher it. This only amplified Arline’s sense of fun — she began cutting holes into her letters, covering passages with ink, and even mail-ordered a jigsaw puzzle kit with which to cut up the pages and completely confound the agents." [0] https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/17/richard-feynman-arline-letter/ https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/17/richard-feynman-arl...
- 1986 6y agoHe talks about it in more depth in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, in the "Los Alamos From Below" section