From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Sep 09 2000 - 16:04:36 MDT
Amara Graps wrote:
> To close this note, some of you may or may not know that John Forbes
> Nash, Jr., the mathematical genius and winner of the Nobel Prize in
> Economics (1994, for work in "Game Theory") was a paranoid
> schizophrenic for about 30-40 years of his life....
> He is perhaps, one of the rare schizophrenic cases that goes into
> remission.
Another one would be Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance. Dont know if it was P-S that he had, but
he himself wrote that he was messed up psychologically, yet look
at the product. John Steinbeck wrote East of Eden in an alcoholic
fog, along with who knows what psychological conditions. Amazing
what a partially disfunctional brain can accomplish. spike
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