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September 01, 2005
The Exploding Milk Bottles of Marburg
from a Cassirer family genealogy website:
Perhaps the nicest account [of the character of Ernst Cassirer] is from his daughter who loved him dearly and to whom he was clearly a loving father [...] For all his brilliance, recounted Anna,
"My father thought very straight, but something else was missing. He had to write instructions for himself on how to fill a pen. He couldn't put on a tie. He would put milk bottles on the stove. The milk bottles would explode because the hot milk would expand. The direct experience was always missing. He was purely abstract."
Posted by robin at September 1, 2005 09:22 AM