Ask the Author: Bruce Watson
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Bruce Watson
The mystery in my life would center around what was going on in the head of three-to-five year old me when I found myself taken out of my home in Illinois, moved to grandparents' home in Florida for nine months, then back to Illinois for a few, then on to California. I'd love to know what I was thinking, how such enormous changes at an early age affected me.
Bruce Watson
Hmm. Anna and Vronsky? Too one-sided. Daisy and Gatsby? Too nostalgic. So it's back to basics -- Romeo and Juliet. Especially in the 1968 Zeffirelli film. OMG to be 15 and see them pepper their faces with kisses. And her hair! Her face. That heaving bosom! The only bosom I've ever seen heaving, and it was done without CGI. But if those "star-crossed lovers" are too traditional, allow me a second favorite fictional couple -- myself and any of the women I've imagined walking with, in meadows, hand-in-hand. The scenes were written nightly. The love flowed forth.
Bruce Watson
Yes, I would be delighted to talk with students. July's a ways away so please remind me as the date approaches, but I should have no trouble setting aside the time. And by the way, I was born in Peoria, though we moved away when I was two.
Bruce Watson
I was reading Walter Isaacson's wonderful Einstein bio when I got fixated on light. I'd just taught a wide-ranging orientation at Bard College and the two things mixed. I wondered whether anyone had ever studied light across the millennia and that got me started.
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