I was at the time working as a “scanner” in the High Energy Physics Lab at Michigan State, sitting in a darkened room measuring tracks of particle interactions projected on a lighted scanning table from reels and reels of bubble chamber photographs gathered at CERN in a massive mad dash accelerator experiment some years before.  For my part it was a menial job, 4pm to midnight every worklong day, but even a minion can imagine himself sharing in a hunt for the particle, or whatever the Grail or Questying Beastie was at the time.

Meanwhile, in another part of the grove, I was spending my daylight hours checking off the final boxes for my Bachelor’s degree, the main thing being to get my paper on Peirce, “Complications of the Simplest Mathematics”, approved as a substitute for a field study requirement.  That had taken me two years’ work in MSU’s media library, poring through the microfilm reels of Peirce’s Nachlass in search of enlightenment about a single puzzling paragraph I tripped over in his Collected Papers.

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