NATIONWIDE : Kaczynski Linked With Conrad Novel
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Authorities believe Theodore J. Kaczynski, the accused Unabomber, may have drawn upon a 1907 novel by Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Agent,” the Washington Post reported. In the novel, a brilliant but mad professor abandons academia in disgust for the isolation of a tiny room, where, clad in ragged, soiled clothes, he builds a bomb used to destroy an observatory referred to as “that idol of science.” Kaczynski is a former mathematics professor said to be an avid reader of Conrad.
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