“Panta Rei” by Cor van Dijk
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ISBN: 978-1-60264-213-3 , softcover, $19.95. 664 pages This is the life story of a Dutch guy who went from farmhand to typesetter to scientist. A colourful mosaic of essays with a start in the Low Lands about such things as Bavarian guestworkers, a horse trader and his wife, a quarrelsome family, life in an occupied country, print shops, religious hysteria, liberation, narrow escapes from the Grim Reaper, a pedophile, the Flood of 1953, a monkey, sex, marriage, divorce, fleeing to and then escaping from Israel, studying physics, unemployment, a girlfriend with seven kids, a doctorate in physics, finding new love, fleeing to America, hopping from one lousy job to the next, all the while turning out reams of watercolors, surviving a stroke and making love to the Forest Fairy in the mountains of Georgia. The story is sprinkled with humor, tragedy, numerous characters and their peculiarities. It would not be a book about a scientist if there were not excursions into the scientific realm, with discussions about such things as lasers and flames and observations about biology. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. van Dijk was born in The Netherlands as the son of a farmhand. After an irregular start as a cowherd, farmhand and typesetter he was admitted to the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands and eventually obtained a doctorate in physics and mathematics. In between he lived in Israel for about a year with his wife Susana and their love child Emmy. The next phase in his life finds him in the United States, married to nurse Angela, working in various universities and laboratories, such as Michigan State University, the University of Florida and the Naval Research Laboratory. In retirement he concentrated on artistic endeavors and the care of his wife. Login to review this product