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Inanimate Objects Aren't Inanimate (Or Objects)

The Emerald

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The Humble Chair

The Arabian Nights tells of a merchant who has an ordinary, shabby old chair that transports him across the universe. What animacies sprung to life? What arcs and bends of space-time? There's something very powerful about simply taking a seat. An old observational chair at Leiden University is known as the Einstein chair,. It was the physicist's usual seat when he visited his friend, William DeSitter, to discuss cosmology.

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