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“It’s  really  about  two  and  a  half  months”:  from  the  following  author  interview:
Birnbaum,  Robert.  “Alan  Lightman.”  Identity  Theory,  November  16,  2000.
http://www.identitytheory.com/alan-lightman/.
Michael Pollan’s book about building a writing cabin: Pollan, Michael. A Place of My
Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder. New York: Random House, 1997.
For more on William Shockley’s scramble to invent the junction transistor: “Shockley
Invents 
the 
Junction 
Transistor.” 
PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/junctinv.html.