When we first moved in here, we heard a rumor that John Nash--the famed Princeton professor and subject of the movie
A Beautiful Mind, which won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress at the 2002 Academy Awards--was actually a neighbor of ours. Someone told us that they thought he lived just down the street somewhere. We didn't really think much about it after that, but yesterday, the proof was in the mail. Wherever he lives, his address is close enough to ours that a Dr. Jackson in France had misaddressed an envelope to him and sent it to
us instead.
Nate thought we should try to find out where Prof. Nash lives so we could deliver the letter to him ourselves and maybe have a chance to meet him, but I didn't want to risk losing it or damaging it in some way, so I took right back to the post office.
Prof. Nash, wherever you are, I hope you get Dr. Jackson's papers. I did my best.
6 comments:
Wow! Doesn't he still walk to work every day? Maybe you could *bump* into him some morning???
I have to admit, I've driven all around here and I've never spotted the guy, so I don't know. We're also a little far from Princeton U. proper, so I'd be amazed if he walked there. Feels like a made-for-TV mystery in the brewing!
So cool. I'm so glad you documented this with a photo. Hey, I bet he does live right by you. Dan and I saw him at the Princeton Junction train station once.
Hmmm.
Did it really come from Dr. Jackson in France or some dark place in Dr. Nash's brain?
I would totally have gone to his house to give him the envelope! Of course, knowing me it would have been stuffed in a bag or the car for some ridiculous amount of time since I would indubitably forget I had it, until I remembered the package but was too embarrassed to return it. We miss you out here.
Eddie--you totally crack me up!
Marci--in retrospect, I might have been too hasty in rushing back to the post office. We did end up looking him up and we think he literally lives about two blocks from here and his address is only one number transposed from ours. So maybe we should have been brave and taken it to him. Oh well.
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