moods. A lot of it didn’t stand up to scrutiny 
sometimes and he would get irritated if you 
challenged him because he was quite vain, quite 
intellectually vain and, I think, deservedly so. But I 
am impatient with those people who denigrated his 
scholarship or denigrated his poetry or denigrated 
his insight. I think he had all those things together. 
However, his was not a carefully integrated 
personality. He did a number of different things 
with enormous intensity and passion and moved 
from one walkway to another rather recklessly.


Q:  When you would meet up with Marshall was he