departure. This man was a complete surprise. He 
was saying things which had an authority in them 
that carried some kind of persuasive power. And I 
was just very flabbergasted when I first heard him 
talk. I didn’t understand anything. I didn’t 
understand his method. All I knew was what he was 
talking about was worth paying attention to, and 
was worth working for—trying to understand 
what he had to say was really worthwhile. That’s 
what I found in my first class. I bungled along. I 
was one of his worst students. I got a C- in his 
class. I don’t think he paid a whole lot of attention 
to me. Except that one day, a year after the first 
year. I came back for more, because I didn’t