Christmas with Grandma Elsie


It was about the middle of November. There had been a long rain storm, ending in sleet and snow, and now the sun was shining brightly on a landscape sheeted with ice: walks and roads were slippery with it, every tree and shrub was encased in it, and glittering and sparkling as if loaded with diamonds, as its branches swayed and tossed in the wind. At Ion Mrs. Elsie Travilla stood at the window of her dressing-room gazing with delighted eyes upon the lovely scene.

“How beautiful!” she said

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In his first book ever, the father of string theory reinvents the world’s concept of the known universe and man’s unique place within it. Line drawings.

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