Three Things from Edmonton podcast -- Episode 133: Oppenheimer, magpies, close calls
Here is where this time every week, I play back three things that made marks of happiness and gratitude on my timeline. Three Things, episode 133: 1. Oppenheimer Tatlock: I don’t want anything from you. Oppenheimer: You say that and then you call. Tatlock: Well, don’t answer. <brief silence> Oppenheimer: I’ll always answer. That little back-and-forth between the Jean Tatlock and J. Robert Oppenheimer characters near the start of the biopic works on many levels. I’ll always answer is his pledge to a lover. I’ll always answer is his approach to his Star Chamber interrogators. I’ll always answer is his action before the riddles of nature. I’ll always answer is a prophecy: he will forever be required to provide a defence of his actions and their reactions. As a man, as a citizen, as a scientist and as an American god—private, public, professional, P...