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what sources will do
It's all very well to complain that living sources weren't (perhaps or
probably?) reinterviewed for a new book, but as one involved in some
research of this kind myself, I can tell you that very often sources have
been interviewed to death. In the case of the figure I'm working on they've
been interviewed and interviewed and now feel it's all "out there
somewhere" and should be available to me. Often it isn't, but they have
said all they have to say about the famous subject and don't have any more
to add.
Ostwald's failing, as I've already said on this list, was that he did not
use his analytic and interpretative powers more in his account. Dying or
not, he produced a relatively flat, unexciting book.
James Rhem
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