Thursday, September 17, 2015

Second try! Still on amazing topics!

Of course but how and what does one cook up in a laboratory? Just ask the late Primo Levi... difficult now that he has passed on but if you read this book you'll be amazed to know that he used his knowledge of chemistry and chemicals to survive the second World War. He did this with the help of a few friends who through a name change managed to hide his Jewish ancestry. But nevertheless his creativity came to the for and he chose to write an entire book...each chapter a different experience and named after a particular chemical on the Periodic Table.

 And so he showed an incredible imagination to think that anyone would be interested enough to read a book based on the Periodic Table. I did and finished it a much better informed person. But I can't say that I will be giving up my habit of reading a good story. Even if the book did explain to me how Primo Levi was lucky enough to have escaped the grasp of Hitler and his men.

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