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one quadrant of his brain there were many
elements that he accepted on faith, but in the
other quadrant there were elements that he invited
us to use skillful scholarly scrutiny to underpin
their assumptions, and the two frequently don’t
mix. So I think of him as having a kind of apartheid
in his apart-head, so to speak, between these two
functions of his life. One that required certain
fundamental axioms that could not be challenged,
and the other that was full of the probing,
provoking, penetrating, constant reexamination of
all academic assumptions, particularly those that
he fought against—the structure and specialized
forms and norms that he inherited and that he