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Reading this small volume is like strolling the Irish countryside, climbing rollicking hills of limerick humor which describe people and places of Emmet County, Michigan and famous figures from Darwin and Einstein to Bill Clinton and Lance Armstrong. One then descends dark poetic valleys portraying a mother's slide into dementia and an encounter with death, "The Last Seductress," only to climb again upon a mirthful meeting of mind and mollusk at the annual Blissfest. Throughout the journey one is surrounded by lush enchanting verbiage that delights the senses.

Boris Kuznetsov was a scientist among humanists, a philosopher among scientists, a historian for those who look to the future, an optimist in an age of sadness. He was steeped in classical European culture, from earliest times to the latest avant-garde, and he roamed through the ages, an inveterate time-traveller, chatting and arguing with Aristotle and Descartes, Heine and Dante, among many others. Kuznetsov was also, in his intelligent and thoughtful way, a Marxist scholar and a practical engineer, a patriotic Russian Jew of the first sixty years of the Soviet Union. Above all he meditated...

An intermittent but mentally quite disabling illness prevented Henry Mehlberg from becoming recognized more widely as the formidable scholar he was, when at his best. During World War II, he had lived in hiding under the false identity of an egg farmer, when the Nazis occupied his native Poland. After relatively short academic appointments at the University of Toronto and at Princeton University, he taught at the University of Chicago until reaching the age of normal retirement. But partly at the initiative of his Chicago colleague Charles Morris, who had preceded him to a 'post-retirement'...