Hey Twitterverse: Weird idiom question. In his (infamous) letter to Szilard in which he argues that scientists have no moral responsibility for the construction of the atomic bomb, Teller closes by writing 1/2
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"...I feel that I should do the wrong thing if I tried to say how to tie the little toe of the ghost to the bottle from which we just helped it to escape." Anybody have any idea what the *hell* he's alluding to here?
@wellerstein, maybe? 2/2Show this thread
I think it's a "genie in the bottle" allusion from someone for whom English was not his first language...
