The Book of Words by J.V. Jones6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s famous for being the site of the Schenectady Massacre of 1690, where French and Native American forces attacked the fledgling settlement at midnight, burning it to the ground and slaying sixty men, women and children who were still in their bedclothes, and also for being the place where Thomas Edison chose to headquarter his fledgling General Electric Company. ![]() It’s an industrial city on the Mohawk River in Upstate New York. However, if the question had been modified to exclude the final word from the sentence then Ellison’s answer would work for me. When Harlan Ellison was asked “Where do you get your ideas from?” he famously answered “ Schenectady.” Ellison was commenting on the absurdity of pinning down a process as ephemeral, multi-dimensional and just plain murky as the origin of an idea. ![]()
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