A:  He was a zany genius. He wasn’t crazy, he had 
his head on his shoulders. He knew what he was 
doing. He was a jokester, a prankster. A little “til 
eulenspiegel” but he loved to have fun. And that’s 
a part of the basis of our friendship, because I’m 
like that too. And we used to have a ball together: I 
remember he used to talk in his theories about 
putting on an audience. He was putting on people 
all the time. I was a physicist. Physicists tended to 
be a little more serious types. I never quite met 
anyone like him.


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