Smythe's Theory of Everything

In 2004 the author found a little diary of 386 pages written by a 62-year-old man in a nursing home. This story is inspired by that diary.<br /> <br />E=mc2? Jack Smythe thinks Einstein is wrong and he has a theory to prove it. But he&apos;s no physicist. Instead, he&apos;s been a homeless kid, a palmreader, a cosmic theorist, a father of two (who probably aren&apos;t his) and a devoted companion to his sister Kitty who has her own demons. But now at 62, he wakes after an operation to find he&apos;s been placed at Eden, a below-average nursing home. <br /> <br />Here he is confronted by Nurse Stinson, Collier the Hun, Pistol Pete, Skeleton Joe, Dooley the publican, Jim the ex-politician and Jim&apos;s rebel granddaughter, among others. He wants nothing to do with any of them.<br /> <br />Instead, with wry wit Jack begins a story about Kitty starting with the day they ran away from home for good. It seems Jack is always running away and ultimately there&apos;s a daring escape at Eden. But unknown to Jack, it&apos;s the &quot;muddle of geriatrics&quot; at Eden that eventually put meaning in his life.