On the other hand, it was like Archimedes going, `Eureka!` '' The two were married in 1981.ĭruyan is quick to say that, although her work has been ''immeasurably enhanced'' by what Sagan has taught her, including focus and discipline, when they met she had already written ''A Famous Broken Heart,'' a novel published in 1977, and become a serious student of science, although she has never obtained a degree. I am a feminist, and I don`t believe women should define themselves by what a man thinks of them. ''That moment was the aperture to everything that`s come since. Well, my dad was that existence theorem for me about the kind of man a father and a husband and a co-worker could be.''ĭuring a telephone call between Druyan and Sagan about the interstellar project, ''it became clear to two people who had never been alone together that we were madly in love,'' she says. ''which is one example that proves something is possible.
''In mathematics they talk about an existence theorem,'' she says, ''I feel like I`ve touched something that will live forever, or as close to forever as humans can reach.''ĭruyan credits her father with preparing her for falling in love with Sagan.
''Since making that record I have never been afraid of death,'' Druyan says. The 90-minute recording, with an apparent shelf-life of a billion years, includes sounds from Chuck Berry, Bach, whales and kissing lovers. The two couples became friends, and Sagan asked Druyan to help him create a compilation of music and messages to send to alien civilizations on NASA`s space probes Voyager I and II. It was not love at first sight, she says, but the laughter and conversation were intense. Sagan was there with his second wife, and Druyan was with another man. She met Carl Sagan in 1974 at a dinner party hosted by writer Nora Ephron. ''I became friends with the Ellington family, and they schlepped me around to concerts of sacred music in African-American churches around New York,'' she says. ''And I was very lucky in that my life was touched by truly exceptional people.'' including Duke Ellington and John Lennon. ''I was meeting fascinating people, the music was great, and it was New York City,'' she says. She calls her life in those years, the late `60s and early `70s, ''a wonderful dream world.'' She was working in bookstores, living with her family and writing a novel.
''This just completely knocked me out, and I read everything I could get my hands on.'' When we say something is divine it`s because we don`t understand what it is,` '' she says. ''These philosophers-Democritus, Anaximander, Hippocrates-they were the first to say, `Let`s not say this or that is divine. It was the logical, scientific methods used by these men that renewed her interest in science. Druyan describes her three years at New York University as disastrous, but after leaving school without graduating, she says, she discovered the pre- Socratic philosophers and began to educate herself.
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