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  • J M Coetzee on my new book, Brief Hours and Weeks

    “Brief Hours and Weeks awakes many memories of Cape Town, the city of Emanuel Derman’s youth and mine, as it was half a century ago.…Continue readingJ M Coetzee on my new book, Brief Hours and Weeks

  • A Short Excerpt From Chapter 9 of “Brief Hours and Weeks”

    CHAPTER 9. THE ISLE OF CAPRI … I do like girls, but all I want is for them to like me back, a lot. Dayenu. In Montagu…Continue readingA Short Excerpt From Chapter 9 of “Brief Hours and Weeks”

  • Summertime: An Excerpt from “Brief Hours and Weeks”

    You love a while and when love goesYou try to hide the tears inside with a cheerful pose.But in the hush of night exactly like…Continue readingSummertime: An Excerpt from “Brief Hours and Weeks”

Emanuel Derman on X

"almost always, the cost of doing something is so much less important than the thing that’s getting done" @dsquareddigest https://open.substack.com/pub/backofmind/p/department-of-what-now?r=2fez&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Gift the red Tesla to the Emir of Qatar

The market is impervious to trump musk etc because it cares only about the deep state which is still chugging along.

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