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It's Better To Be Dead, Or Even Perfectly Well, Than To Suffer From The Wrong Affliction. The Man Who Owns Up To Arthritis In A Beri-beri Year Is As Lonely As A Woman In A Last Month's Dress.

I Seem To Be Thinking Rationally Again In The Style That Is Characteristic Of Scientists. However This Is Not Entirely A Matter Of Joy As If Someone Returned From Physical Disability To Good Physical Health.

I Had Been Offered Fellowships To Enter As A Graduate Student At Either Harvard Or Princeton. But The Princeton Fellowship Was Somewhat More Generous, Since I Had Not Actually Won The Putnam Competition... Thus Princeton Became The Choice For My Graduate Study Location.

Though I Had Success In My Research Both When I Was Mad And When I Was Not, Eventually I Felt That My Work Would Be Better Respected If I Thought And Acted Like A 'normal' Person.

As You Will Find In Multivariable Calculus, There Is Often A Number Of Solutions For Any Given Problem.