"Even when he was dying, he would ask Juliette to give him paper and something to write with: he said it was the only way he knew to relieve the pain [of cancer]."
-Charles S. Peirce in a letter to Victoria Welby, May 25, 1911. The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand (436).
"By writing, so much suffering disappears."
-Yang Huanyi, the last user of Nushu, the ancient, secret Chinese language of women, as quoted by The New York Times in her obituary, October 7, 2004.
-Charles S. Peirce in a letter to Victoria Welby, May 25, 1911. The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand (436).
"By writing, so much suffering disappears."
-Yang Huanyi, the last user of Nushu, the ancient, secret Chinese language of women, as quoted by The New York Times in her obituary, October 7, 2004.
