kind of the bad boy of letters. He did not get along 
well with administrators or with other people and 
he was always quarreling with other faculty 
members and so on. I love his quarrelsome 
disposition, his flair for theatre. There are all kinds 
of things about him that I find very attractive. The 
only problem is that he never wrote his master 
work. That is the issue, is that he wrote several 
early books, and they were like collections of 
essays of his. I think that has cost him his 
reputation in the long run. But even Norman O. 
Brown, who did write a master work, Life Against  
Death , has in some way been displaced by the 
influx of French theory.