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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Einstein's Dreams about Italo, Calvino's, Cities</I></A with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's <A href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0156453800/${0}"><I>Invisible Cities</I></A>, Steven Millhauser's <A href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0375701435/${0}"><I>Little Kingdoms</I></A>, or Jorge Luis Borges's <A href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0811200124/${0}"><I>Labyrinths</I></A>, you will love the author's ethereal yet down-to-earth book <I>Einstein's Dreams</I>. the author teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.P. Snow famously called <A href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0521457300/${0}"><I>The Two Cultures</I></A>.
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: Snow famously called <A href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0521457300/${0}"><I>The Two Cultures</I></A>..P. the author teaches physics and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, helping bridge the light-year-size gap between science and the humanities, the enemy camps C.If you liked the eerie whimsy of Italo Calvino's <A href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0156453800/${0}"><I>Invisible Cities</I></A>, Steven Millhauser's <A href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0375701435/${0}"><I>Little Kingdoms</I></A>, or Jorge Luis Borges's <A href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0811200124/${0}"><I>Labyrinths</I></A>, you will love the author's ethereal yet down-to-earth book <I>Einstein's Dreams</I>
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled Einstein's Dreams.
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conversations.value: Einstein's Dreams: The novel fictionalizes Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is troubled by dreams as he works on his theory of relativity in 1905.\nThe book consists of 30 chapters, each exploring one dream about time that Einstein had during this period.\nThe framework of the book consists of a prelude, three interludes, and an epilogue.\nEinstein\'s friend, Michele Besso, appears in these sections.\nEach dream involves a conception of time.\nSome scenarios may involve exaggerations of true phenomena related to relativity, and some may be entirely fantastical.\nThe book demonstrates the relationship each human being has to time, and thus spiritually affirms Einstein\'s theory of relativity.\nThe novel is sometimes cited as the source of the urban legend apocryphal "universal force" letter from Einstein to his daughter, Lieserl, but the novel does not contain the letter.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Einstein's Dreams
  In some distant arcade, a clock tower calls out six times and then stops. The young man slumps at his desk. He has come to the office at dawn, after another upheaval. His hair is uncombed and his trousers are too big. In his hand he holds twenty crumpled pages, his new theory of time, which he will mail today to the German journal of physics.
  Tiny sounds from the city drift through the room. A milk bottle clinks on a stone. An awning is cranked in a shop on Marktgasse. A vegetable cart moves slowly through a street. A man and woman talk in hushed tones in an apartment nearby.
  Outside, the tops of the Alps start to glow from the sun. It is late June. A boatman on the Aare unties his small skiff and pushes off, letting the current take him along Aarstrasse to Gerberngasse, where he will deliver his summer apples and berries. The baker arrives at his store on Marktgasse, fires his coal oven, begins mixing flour and yeast. Two lovers embrace on the Nydegg Bridge, gaze wistfully into the river below. A man stands on his balcony on Schifflaube, studies the pink sky. A woman who cannot sleep walks slowly down Kramgasse, peering into each dark arcade, reading the posters in halflight.
  In the long, narrow office on Speichergasse, the room full of practical ideas, the young patent clerk still sprawls in his chair, head down on his desk. For the past several months, since the middle of April, he has dreamed many dreams about time. His dreams have taken hold of his research. His dreams have worn him out, exhausted him so that he sometimes cannot tell whether he is awake or asleep. But the dreaming is finished. Out of many possible natures of time, imagined in as many nights, one seems compelling. Not that the others are impossible. The others might exist in other worlds.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: For those who have had their vision, this is a world of guaranteed success. Few projects are started that do not advance a career. Few trips are taken that do not lead to the city of destiny. Few friends are made who will not be friends in the future. Few passions are wasted.
  For those who have not had their vision, this is a world of inactive suspense. How can one enroll in university without knowing one's future occupation? How can one set up an apothecary on Marktgasse when a similar shop might do better on Spitalgasse? How can one make love to a man when he may not remain faithful? Such people sleep most of the day and wait for their vision to come.
  Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their vision without taking risks.
  Some few who have witnessed the future do all they can to refute it. A man goes to tend the museum gardens in Neuchâtel after he has seen himself a barrister in Lucerne. A youth embarks on a vigorous sailing voyage with his father after a vision that his father will die soon of heart trouble. A young woman allows herself to fall in love with one man even though she has seen that she will marry another. Such people stand on their balconies at twilight and shout that the future can be changed, that thousands of futures are possible. In time, the gardener in Neuchâtel gets tired of his low wages, becomes a barrister in Lucerne. The father dies of his heart, and his son hates himself for not forcing his father to keep to his bed. The young woman is deserted by her lover, marries a man who will let her have solitude with her pain.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: For those who have had their vision, this is a world of guaranteed success. Few projects are started that do not advance a career. Few trips are taken that do not lead to the city of destiny. Few friends are made who will not be friends in the future. Few passions are wasted.
  For those who have not had their vision, this is a world of inactive suspense. How can one enroll in university without knowing one's future occupation? How can one set up an apothecary on Marktgasse when a similar shop might do better on Spitalgasse? How can one make love to a man when he may not remain faithful? Such people sleep most of the day and wait for their vision to come.
  Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their vision without taking risks.
  Some few who have witnessed the future do all they can to refute it. A man goes to tend the museum gardens in Neuchâtel after he has seen himself a barrister in Lucerne. A youth embarks on a vigorous sailing voyage with his father after a vision that his father will die soon of heart trouble. A young woman allows herself to fall in love with one man even though she has seen that she will marry another. Such people stand on their balconies at twilight and shout that the future can be changed, that thousands of futures are possible. In time, the gardener in Neuchâtel gets tired of his low wages, becomes a barrister in Lucerne. The father dies of his heart, and his son hates himself for not forcing his father to keep to his bed.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'Outside, the town is awake'.
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conversations.value: Outside, the town is awake. A woman and her husband argue as she hands him his lunch. A group of boys on their way to the gymnasium on Zeughausgasse throw a soccer ball back and forth and talk excitedly about the summer vacation. Two women walk briskly toward Marktgasse carrying empty shopping sacks.
  Shortly, a senior patent officer comes in the door, goes to his desk and begins working, without saying a word. Einstein turns around and looks at the clock in the corner. Three minutes after eight. He fidgets with coins in his pocket.
  At four minutes past eight, the typist walks in. She sees Einstein across the room holding his handwritten manuscript and she smiles. She has already typed several of his personal papers for him in her spare time, and he always gladly pays what she asks. He is quiet, though he sometimes tells jokes. She likes him.
  Einstein walks back to his desk, sits down for a moment, and then returns to the window. He feels empty. He has no interest in reviewing patents or talking to Besso or thinking of physics. He feels empty, and he stares without interest at the tiny black speck and the Alps.